Tiny enough to look like fruit flies to most observers, winged microchips developed by engineers at Northwestern University could soon be used for population surveillance and the tracking of airborne ...

To craft the smallest flying structure humans have ever produced, researchers turned to nature. Engineers from Northwestern University designed a flying microchip about the size of a grain of sand to ...

Engineers at Northwestern University have given microchips a new ability – the power of flight. Inspired by wind-dispersed seeds, these “microfliers” are shaped like tiny propellers to catch the wind, ...

A team of engineers boasts of beating nature by creating the smallest human-made flying structure, a winged microchip that behaves just like the seeds from trees and plants but has better flying ...

A 3D microflier sits next to a common ant to show scale. (CN) — Engineers on Wednesday unveiled perhaps one of the next great breakthroughs in human innovation — the smallest ever flying microchip, no ...

Northwestern Engineering researchers have added a new capability to electronic microchips: flight. About the size of a grain of sand, the new flying microchip (or “microflier”) does not have a motor ...

Humanity has developed many mind-blowing inventions throughout the course of history, but many of those owe their inspiration to Mother Nature. Some are even literally copying nature, learning from ...

As if conspiracy theorists didn’t have enough to worry about, Northwestern University engineers have just developed a flying microchip. As reported in the Sep. 23 issue of Nature, the airborne ...

Sept. 22 (UPI) --Engineers at Northwestern University have shrunk a microchip to roughly the size of a grain of sand and given it the power of flight. The new "microflier" -- detailed Wednesday in the ...