- Fine-Grained Factoring - How small can you make methods without over-engineering? http://beautifulcode.oreillynet.com/2007/07/finegrained_factoring.php 15 comments programming
- Scientists in Japan have developed an inexpensive, scalable way to produce high-temperature superconductors using "grain boundary engineering" techniques. The new method could help develop stronger, inexpensive, and high operating temperature superconductors with impactful technological applications https://en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/research/activities/news/2021/12/20211217-01.html 10 comments science
- Rice genetically engineered to resist heat waves can also produce up to 20% more grain. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/rice-genetically-engineered-resist-heat-waves-can-also-produce-20-more-grain?utm_campaign=scimag&utm_source=jhubbard&utm_medium=facebook# 74 comments science
- Stanford engineer invents safe way to transfer energy to medical chips: A wireless system developed by a Stanford engineer uses the same power as a cell phone to safely transmit energy to chips the size of a grain of rice. http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/may/electronic-wireless-transfer-051914.html 5 comments technology
- Moving water and earth - A new understanding of how particle shape controls grain flow could help engineers manage river restoration and coastal erosion. https://news.mit.edu/2023/grain-flow-sediment-transport-0111 2 comments science
- Spinning the Light: The World's Smallest Optical Gyroscope - Caltech engineers create an optical gyroscope smaller than a grain of rice. It is 500 times smaller than the current state-of-the-art device and could find its way into drones and spacecraft in the future. http://www.caltech.edu/news/spinning-light-worlds-smallest-optical-gyroscope-84183 10 comments science
- Engineers have created a tiny camera, not bigger than a grain of salt, that can see as an eagle. The camera uses four lenses instead of one, each set at different focal lengths and mounted on an image-reading microchip that compiles data from all four lenses into a single image. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/02/these-tiny-camera-lenses-can-see-eagle 105 comments science
- Winged microchip is smallest ever human made flying structure - About the size of a grain of sand, the new flying microchip (or "microflier") does not have a motor or engine. Instead, it catches flight on the wind https://techxplore.com/news/2021-09-winged-microchip-smallest-ever-human-made.html 2 comments futurology
- In a Grain of Golden Rice, a World of Raging Controversy Over GMO Foods - There's rice growing in the Philippines unlike any ever seen. It's yellow & genetically modified with beta-carotene. It's become the symbol of an idea: genetically engineered crops can improve lives, rousing global debate. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/07/173611461/in-a-grain-of-golden-rice-a-world-of-controversy-over-gmo-foods 298 comments worldnews