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In South Africa there’s a little-known ecosystem, containing more plant species than the entire Amazon, plants that are found ...

A North Carolina man with the “world’s smallest penis” has revealed some of the biggest problems he faces being not so ...

A tiny robot so small it can barely be seen can still "sense, think, and act" autonomously, according to the engineers who ...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have created the world's smallest fully programmable ...

Countries around the world range greatly in size. In fact, when you add up the area in square miles of the top five smallest countries in the world, that number is less than 50. Vatican City is the ...

Cornell researchers in physics and engineering have created the smallest walking robot yet, and its tiny size is only a side-effect. Controlled by magnets and small enough to diffract visible light, ...

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) and the University of Michigan have created the world's smallest autonomous and programmable robots. Each measuring about 200 micrometers wide – ...

Engineers at Northwestern University have developed the world’s smallest pacemaker. It’s so small, as a matter of fact, that it fits inside the tip of a syringe. This means that it’s injectable, so ...

A year ago, the appearance of the Asian small-clawed otter in Nepal created a buzz, given that the species hadn’t been seen ...