Sitting in a restaurant, you reach for the ketchup bottle, eyeing the basket of fries in front of you. You give the bottle a ...

The task of gently transporting a microscopic particle from one point to another along a winding path, and then bringing it ...

A team of researchers from the Universities of Tübingen, Bayreuth, and Kassel, and the Polish Academy of Sciences has ...

Researchers developed a magnetic checkerboard method to steer colloidal particles by size, enabling precise lab-on-chip ...

New research suggests a particle inside an atom can lose mass, offering a fresh look at how matter works at the smallest scale.

Programmable optical particle transport based on structured light plays a crucial role in microscale manipulation. Scientists ...

Plasmonic nanomachines use light-generated gradients to create local force, offering a design framework for controlled motion at micro- and nanoscale dimensions.

In the home, the lab and the factory, electric fields control technologies such as Kindle displays, medical diagnostic tests and devices that purify cancer drugs. In an electric field, anything with ...