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

The key to understanding the drivers of physical and neurological disease lies in part with understanding the microscopic ...

The work, published in the journal Plant Physiology, describes a new system called “Stomata In-Sight.” The technology ...

For centuries, scientists have known that plants "breathe" through microscopic pores on their leaves called stomata. These ...

A microscope exposes surprising living organisms lurking on an everyday toothbrush most people use without a second thought.

Scientists have created a new way to watch plants breathe—live and in high definition—while tracking exactly how much carbon ...

Scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have refined an X-ray diffraction technique for detecting biological structures ...

Researchers have identified a common household beverage as an effective, non-toxic substitute for the hazardous chemicals ...

Scientists have unveiled a new way to capture ultra-sharp optical images without lenses or painstaking alignment. The ...

Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

Researchers built autonomous robots the size of salt grains—with onboard computers, sensors, and motors that think and swim ...

Researchers have identified a brain protein whose absence leads to memory loss and Alzheimer’s-like damage in mice.