{"id":127987,"date":"2021-09-22T23:22:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T06:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/winged-microchip-is-smallest-ever-human-made-flying-structure-the-size-of-a-grain-of-sand"},"modified":"2021-09-22T23:22:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T06:22:33","slug":"winged-microchip-is-smallest-ever-human-made-flying-structure-the-size-of-a-grain-of-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/winged-microchip-is-smallest-ever-human-made-flying-structure-the-size-of-a-grain-of-sand","title":{"rendered":"Winged Microchip Is Smallest-Ever Human-Made Flying Structure \u2014 The Size of a Grain of Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mA8gEZy5PpA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The size of a grain of sand, dispersed microfliers could monitor air pollution, airborne disease, and environmental contamination.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Northwestern University engineers have added a new capability to electronic microchips: flight.<\/p>\n<p>About the size of a grain of sand, the new flying microchip (or \u201cmicroflier\u201d) does not have a motor or engine. Instead, it catches flight on the wind \u2014 much like a maple tree\u2019s propeller seed \u2014 and spins like a helicopter through the air toward the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The size of a grain of sand, dispersed microfliers could monitor air pollution, airborne disease, and environmental contamination. Northwestern University engineers have added a new capability to electronic microchips: flight. About the size of a grain of sand, the new flying microchip (or \u201cmicroflier\u201d) does not have a motor or engine. Instead, it catches flight [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}