NASA's Webb Identifies Tiniest Free-Floating Brown Dwarf

A team using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has identified the new record-holder: a tiny, free-floating brown dwarf with only three to four times the mass of Jupiter.

This Amazing Ultrafast Laser Is Tiny Enough to Fit on a Fingertip

To accurately measure the Universe on the smallest scales, you need a laser with the perfect mix of power and precision.

This is the first X-ray taken of a single atom

Now we have the first X-ray taken of a single atom, courtesy of scientists from the US, according to a new paper published in the journal Nature. 

Extremely Small Battery For The Smallest Computers

There was a time, not so long ago, when computers occupied entire rooms. Today, some processing units can come as small as a few specks of dust.

New Microscope Directly Images Protein Atoms

Two laboratories recently used cryo-electron microscopy to directly image atoms in a protein molecule with a resolution of about 1.2 x 10-7 millimeters.

First-Ever Footage Of Atoms Bonding

Using advanced microscopy methods, scientists captured a moment of breaking of a chemical bond, around half a million times smaller than the width of a human hair. We are now the first generation of humans to have seen atoms.

This Radical New DNA Microscope Reimagines the Cellular World

The new technique, dubbed DNA microscopy, uses only a pipette and some liquid reagents. The results are absolutely breathtaking. Cells shine like stars in a nebula, each pseudo-colored according to their genomic profiles.

Electron images achieve record-breaking resolution

A sophisticated electron detector has for the first time enabled scientists to reveal sub-angstrom detail in a 2D material.

Robotic assembly of the world's smallest house

A French nanorobotics team has assembled a new microrobotics system that pushes forward the frontiers of optical nanotechnologies.

IBM Unveils "World's Smallest Computer"

In the next five years, tiny computers - smaller than a grain of salt - will be tackling issues of counterfeit and food safety among others, tech giant IBM has predicted.

Scientists 'paint' the world's smallest Mona Lisa on a DNA

New techniques in DNA self-assembly allow researchers to create the largest to-date customizable patterns with nanometer precision on a budget.

Algorithm designer among those honored with the Chemistry Nobel

This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to a group of individuals who pushed the electron microscope to its very limit, figuring out how to use it to determine the position of every single atom in large, complex molecules.

Microscopic and in motion

A quick look at some of this year’s best videos made with a microscope.

Behold the Tiniest Star Ever Discovered

Astronomers at the University of Cambridge have discovered a star that’s barely bigger than Saturn, making it the smallest stellar object known to science.

Quantum Data Storage in a Single Atom Brings New Computing Era Closer to Reality

In a big step forward, physicists achieved the first-ever demonstration of storing and retrieving quantum data from the nucleus of a solitary atom embedded in silicon.