Researchers say the innovation, known as SmartEM, will speed scanning sevenfold and open the field of connectomics to a ...
When observing small worms under a microscope, one might observe something very surprising: the worms appear to make a ...
Stanford researchers have developed a flexible material that can quickly change its surface texture and colors, offering ...
Researchers have created microscopic robots so small they’re barely visible, yet smart enough to sense, decide, and move completely on their own. Powered by light and equipped with tiny computers, the ...
Octopus and other cephalopods are good at hiding themselves—and are inspiring cutting-edge technologies that may help us do ...
Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, low-cost particle detector that tracks muons, invisible particles that ...
Day to day, it might be tempting to take plants for granted. But you'd do so at your peril; our leafy brethren are staggeringly complex, as revealed when they're put under the microscope. To give ...
What happens behind the scenes of a dinosaur exhibit? Short Wave host Regina Barber got to find out … by taking a trip to the ...
Electron microscopy uses a beam of electrons to illuminate a sample and achieve much higher spatial resolution than light microscopy. Transmission electron microscopy generates an image of the ...