To ensure our bodies function correctly, the cells that compose them must operate properly. Imagine a cell as a bustling city ...

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

On Christmas Day 2021, alongside other astronomers, I watched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launch from French Guiana and begin its month-long journey to its destination, 1.5 million ...

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

A new lens-free imaging system uses software to see finer details from farther away than optical systems ever could before.

Light can do more than illuminate a material. In some cases, it can temporarily change how electrons move through it. That ...

In 1929, Ernest Orlando Lawrence invented the cyclotron: a compact, efficient particle accelerator that used magnets. Two ...

New research reveals that a single 10-second smooch can pass 80 million bacteria between partners. Doctors shed some light ...

Researchers developed a color-changing material that alters both surface texture and appearance in seconds, inspired by ...

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