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

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

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

Scientists have built microscopic, light-powered robots that can think, swim, and operate independently at the scale of ...

Monitoring forest health typically relies on remote sensing tools such as light detection and ranging (LiDAR), radar, and ...

Farmer Wilson Bentley was the first to photograph the tiny snow crystals individually, and his collection reveals that each ...

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Scientists are learning to engineer light in rich, multidimensional ways that dramatically increase how much information a ...

Despite their size, the robots can navigate liquids, respond to their environment and operate without external control.

The work, published in the journal Plant Physiology, describes a new system called “Stomata In-Sight.” The technology addresses a persistent challenge in plant science by making it possible to track ...

Stanford researchers have developed a flexible material that can quickly change its surface texture and colors, offering ...