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9:15am, 18th April, 2019

Tiny, fast, accurate technology on the radar

(King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST)) A tiny, portable radar device could allow visually impaired people, or unmanned moving devices to detect objects in real time.

New virtual reality tool allows you to see the world through the eyes of a tiny primate

3:49pm, 25th March, 2019

Tech

New virtual reality tool allows you to see the world through the eyes of a tiny primate

(Dartmouth College) Imagine that you live in the rainforests of Southeast Asia, you're a pint-sized primate with enormous eyes and you look a little like Gizmo from the movie, 'Gremlins.' You're a tarsier -- a nocturnal animal who...

Tiny song bird makes record migration, U of G study proves

1:08pm, 19th March, 2019

Nature

Tiny song bird makes record migration, U of G study proves

(University of Guelph) The bird's trek between its breeding grounds in the central and western boreal forest of North America and its winter home in the Amazon Basin is one of the longest songbird migrations recorded.Describing a route arcing ac...

From Stone Age chips to microchips: How tiny tools may have made us human

12:48pm, 12th March, 2019

Nature

From Stone Age chips to microchips: How tiny tools may have made us human

(Emory Health Sciences) Anthropologists have long made the case that tool-making is one of the key behaviors that separated our human ancestors from other primates. A new paper, however, argues that it was not tool-making that set hominins apart -- i...

One device, many frequencies: Argonne researchers create a unique, tiny resonator

8:30pm, 5th March, 2019

Physics

One device, many frequencies: Argonne researchers create a unique, tiny resonator

(DOE/Argonne National Laboratory) A finding from a team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory could ultimately help improve the army of tiny, vibrating components found in a range of electronics a...

Tiny fibers create unseen plastic pollution

11:40am, 16th February, 2019

Nature

Tiny fibers create unseen plastic pollution

(Penn State) While the polyester leisure suit was a 1970s mistake, polyester and other synthetic fibers like nylon are still around and are a major contributor to the microplastics load in the environment, according to a Penn State materials scientis...

Tiny satellites reveal water dynamics in thousands of northern lakes

4:26pm, 14th February, 2019

Environment

Tiny satellites reveal water dynamics in thousands of northern lakes

(Brown University) In a finding that has implications for how scientists calculate natural greenhouse gas emissions, a new study finds that water levels in small lakes across northern Canada and Alaska vary during the summer much more than was assume...

‘Smallsats are big’: NASA official details initiatives to boost tiny science satellites

7:01pm, 6th August, 2018

Space

‘Smallsats are big’: NASA official details initiatives to boost tiny science satellites

Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s associate administrator for the science mission directorate, gives a keynote address at the SmallSat Conference in Logan, Utah. (NASA Photo via Twitter) LOGAN, Utah — NASA is already deep into small-satellite science, but tod...

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Tiny, fast, accurate technology on the radar

New virtual reality tool allows you to see the world through the eyes of a tiny primate

Tiny song bird makes record migration, U of G study proves

From Stone Age chips to microchips: How tiny tools may have made us human

One device, many frequencies: Argonne researchers create a unique, tiny resonator

Tiny fibers create unseen plastic pollution

Tiny satellites reveal water dynamics in thousands of northern lakes

‘Smallsats are big’: NASA official details initiatives to boost tiny science satellites

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