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[https://www.npr.org/2021/09/23/1040035430/flying-microchip-sand-grain-northwestern-winged by SCOTT NEUMAN NPR September 23, 2021]
  That September, prime minister Theresa May went with option two. She told the House of Commons that the two Russian assassins were Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov – adding that the police believed these names to be aliases. CCTV images from their trips to Salisbury were revealed. Also shown was the apparent murder weapon – a counterfeit perfume bottle containing the nerve agent novichok.
  The devices don't have a motor, but engineers were instead inspired by the maple tree's free-falling propeller seeds — technically known as samara fruit. They optimized the aerodynamics of the microfliers so that "as these structures fall through the air, the interaction between the air and those wings cause a rotational motion that creates a very stable, slow, falling velocity," said John A. Rogers, who led the development of the devices.
Paradoxically, this low-level corruption made Russia one of the most open societies in the world. Corruption was the friend of investigative journalism, and the enemy of government–military secrets.

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Flying Microchips The Size Of A Sand Grain Could Be Used For Population Surveillance

by SCOTT NEUMAN NPR September 23, 2021

The devices don't have a motor, but engineers were instead inspired by the maple tree's free-falling propeller seeds — technically known as samara fruit. They optimized the aerodynamics of the microfliers so that "as these structures fall through the air, the interaction between the air and those wings cause a rotational motion that creates a very stable, slow, falling velocity," said John A. Rogers, who led the development of the devices.