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By embracing the strange physics of the microscale instead of fighting it, engineers unlocked an entirely new class of machines.
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Boreyko’s group first saw this at the microscale.
—Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 30 Dec. 2025
PAMs at the microscale can also expand or contract in response to electrical charges.
—Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2025
For Hoel, emergent systems are ones whose macroscale behavior has some immunity to randomness or noise at the microscale.
—Philip Ball, WIRED, 21 July 2024
However, shrinking all the elements of traditional photonics down to microscale—to match the density of signals and processing operations inside a traditional microchip—requires entirely new optical methods and materials.
—Margo Anderson, IEEE Spectrum, 3 Oct. 2019
These steps – from phenomenology to causality and ultimately predictive intervention – are challenging for microbiome research efforts, given the enormously complex interactions occurring on the microscale.
—Jeffrey Marlow, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2017
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Boreyko’s group first saw this at the microscale.
—Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 30 Dec. 2025
PAMs at the microscale can also expand or contract in response to electrical charges.
—Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2025
For Hoel, emergent systems are ones whose macroscale behavior has some immunity to randomness or noise at the microscale.
—Philip Ball, WIRED, 21 July 2024
However, shrinking all the elements of traditional photonics down to microscale—to match the density of signals and processing operations inside a traditional microchip—requires entirely new optical methods and materials.
—Margo Anderson, IEEE Spectrum, 3 Oct. 2019
These steps – from phenomenology to causality and ultimately predictive intervention – are challenging for microbiome research efforts, given the enormously complex interactions occurring on the microscale.
—Jeffrey Marlow, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2017
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“Microscale.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/microscale. Accessed 19 Mar. 2026.
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