Researchers have developed a steam engine that's only a few micrometers wide. It works - although it does sputter a bit. (Image Credit: Max Planck Society) Researchers at the Max Planck Institute have ...

Just how small can you make an engine? Two researchers from the University of Stuttgart and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Valentin Blickle and Clemens Bechinger, successfully ...

Scientists have built the world’s smallest engine. It consists of a single microscopic particle, smaller than a human cell, levitating in a vacuum. By rattling this lone particle with “noisy” ...

It sounds implausible, yet scientists have managed to create a functioning engine, analogous to a Stirling engine, just three micrometers wide and made of a single particle. The minuscule engine was ...

New Delhi, Sep 21 (IANS) Performance of tiny engines encompassing single colloidal particles vary with modulations in environmental noise, say researchers, who evaluated the response of such micro ...

New research at Clemson University could improve a technology that many experts see as crucial in helping automakers meet increasingly rigorous fuel economy and exhaust-emission requirements around ...

Researchers have designed a remarkably fast engine that taps into a new kind of fuel -- information. This engine converts the random jiggling of a microscopic particle into stored energy. It could ...