Early carbon light bulbs may have produced graphene, since applying voltage to carbon filaments mirrors what is now called ...

Researchers at Leipzig University and TU Dresden have succeeded in developing biological switches that can selectively turn ion channels on and off using light pulses. Initial applications show that ...

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...

New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, ...

A retired San Francisco police sergeant's explosive courtroom testimony has thrown a major cold-case murder prosecution into ...

Histology is one of the foundations of modern diagnostics. When physicians want to determine whether tissue is pathologically ...

Minerva Engineering, a global leader in UV-visible-NIR microscopy and microspectroscopy, is pleased to announce the launch of Coal Dragon™, the latest-generation Vitrinite Reflectance Measurement ...

Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers unveil Back-Illumination Tomography (BIT), a high-speed microscope that provides ...

A multidisciplinary team from Harvard Medical School, Duke University, and Massachusetts General Hospital has developed the dual-scale Capillary-Cell (CapCell) microscope, a revolutionary tool for ...

Chocolate can also turn white even when it’s not stored in the fridge. “Think of leaving a chocolate bar in the car on a hot summer day,” says Hartel. “After it cools, it often develops a white, hazy ...

Nanomechanical systems have now reached a level of precision and miniaturization that will allow them to be used in ...