Preparing for a medical test often triggers health anxiety, making it easy to worry about hidden conditions and care needs.

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

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

New device could be used to observe structures as small as individual proteins, as well as the environment in which they move ...

One of the great successes of 20th-century physics was the quantum mechanical description of solids. This allowed scientists to understand for the first time how and why certain materials conduct ...

The presented findings are important for the field of cell-cycle control. They provide new insights into the origin of cell size variability in budding yeast. The strength of evidence is solid.

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

“…in 1948 Hilger amalgamated with the well-known metrology instrument manufacturer E R Watts and the company became known as Hilger & Watts…In 1993 the company ...

Optical 3D metrology enables fast, non-contact surface roughness measurement of defects and roughness for precise ...