Researchers at Princeton and North Carolina State University have developed a technique that substantially improves the ...

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

A new leaf imaging system lets scientists watch plant stomata control water loss and carbon uptake in real time.

Researchers say the innovation, known as SmartEM, will speed scanning sevenfold and open the field of connectomics to a ...

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

Encouraged by these results, Dudin, Dey, Guichard, and Hamel launched a close collaboration. Three years later, their work has produced near-encyclopedic insight into hundreds of protist species and ...

Smartwatch makers promise to turn your wrist into a sleep lab, translating tiny movements and heart rate blips into colorful ...

This is an important study on the sensory roles of Cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons (CBF-cn) in mammals. The authors identify PKD2L1 as the predominant pH-sensing channel CBF-cn and show how the ...

Most of the time, you assume your brain is either “on” or “off,” awake or asleep. A new study shows something far more ...

Motors and gear trains with micrometer dimensions and powered by light are fabricated using semiconductor lithography and ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say results of a new National Institutes of Health-funded study are advancing efforts to ...

A new dual-light microscope lets researchers observe micro- and nanoscale activity inside living cells without using dyes. The system captures both detailed structures and tiny moving particles at ...