When observing small worms under a microscope, one might observe something very surprising: the worms appear to make a ...

A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.

UIUC's platform, christened Stomata In-Sight, combines laser scanning confocal microscopy, gas exchange instruments and machine-learning image analysis, to simultaneously observe anatomical ...

Male infertility is a major issue worldwide and its causes remain unclear. Now, an international team of researchers led by ...

For centuries, the field of pathology has been defined by a single instrument: the microscope. But according to William ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have developed a new type of lidar—a laser-based remote-sensing instrument—that can observe cloud structures at the scale of a single centimeter. The ...

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Tiny robots smaller than cells can swim, sense surroundings, and decode temperature through miniature dance-like movements ...

As a baby, Elisa Fernández Sánchez’ mother would place her into the bow of the canoe and glide across the murky waters of the ...

New research offers clearer insight into how phase transitions unfold at the atomic scale in real materials. When ice turns into water, the change happens almost instantly. Once the melting ...