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

The University of Iowa is working to upgrade equipment and expand its materials science learning capabilities for students ...

Johns Hopkins University geneticists and a small army of researchers across the country, including students, are working to ...

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.

For centuries, scientists have known that plants "breathe" through microscopic pores on their leaves called stomata. These ...

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There is “an urgent need for more proactive public health surveillance and intervention efforts”, argue scientists in a new ...

Coral reefs don’t just shape marine life you can see, they also control the daily rhythms of invisible microbes nearby.

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 ...

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Moss is ancient. It evolved some 470 million years ago, long before the first dinosaur hatched. It is so rudimentary that it ...