Every few years, a new technology comes around that the general public doesn't understand as well as its creators might like, such as artificial intelligence and the evolution of machine learning, ...

When we hear the word “dust”, the first thing that comes to our mind is a powdery substance with zero value. Smart dust is a tiny device with extensive applications in science and technology.

Getting a tiny wireless sensor to work is hard enough. But the real challenge may be in pulling thousands of smart-dust motes-each with extremely constrained processing, memory and communications ...

In his 1963 scifi story “The Invincible,” the Polish writer Stanisław Lem imagined an artificial species of free-floating nanobots which roamed the atmosphere of a far-off planet. Like tiny bugs, the ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Some 20-30 years ago, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) emerged in industrial manufacturing in a major way. MEMS consist of any combination of mechanical (levers, springs, ...

Imagine fully functional sensor circuits so small and inexpensive that you could afford to scatter thousands into an area of interest to sense local conditions or to detect the presence and movement ...