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, ...

Bryan Nelson is a science writer and award-winning documentary filmmaker with over a decade of experience covering technology, astronomy, medicine, animals, and more. There are many tiny shrews, but ...

Jetting off to an idyllic island sounds pretty perfect at any time, but even more so right now. With everything that’s going on in the world, the idea of escaping to a hidden spot with a leisurely ...

A tiny frog endemic to the state of Bahia on Brazil’s Atlantic coast may have just earned the title of the smallest vertebrate in the world. The Brazilian flea toad, or Brachycephalus pulex, was first ...

According to the BBC, there are an estimated 8.7 million species of animals in the world. Experts believe some of these species will go extinct before they are able to be studied. It’s believed it ...

The world's smallest tree is Dwarf Willow (Salix herbacea). The pygmy weed, a tiny succulent from California, has the smallest leaves in the world. The height of the Dwarf Willow is 1-6 centimeters (0 ...