Humans have been making metal alloys for thousands of years, and most of us can conjure a rough mental image of the ...

Modern imaging is contributing significantly to giving us a better understanding of how our brains work. In the long term, this will also help us to treat learning disorders in a more targeted way and ...

Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is a technique used to observe the features of very small specimens. The technology uses an accelerated beam of electrons, which passes through a very thin ...

Cryoelectron microscopy is a method for imaging frozen-hydrated specimens at cryogenic temperatures by electron microscopy. Specimens remain in their native state without the need for dyes or ...

Scanning electron microscopy is a general type of electron microscopy that generates a topological image of a sample using a beam of electrons to achieve much higher spatial resolution than light ...

Tim Cernak’s journey into conservation research started in 2020 with, of all things, a gardening question. He had picked up ...

An international team of scientists has uncovered exceptionally preserved plant spores inside a 250-million-year-old fossil from southern Brazil.

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A new study, led by researchers at the University of Liverpool, has revealed how pathogenic bacteria construct tiny ...

A research team has discovered how to finely control Dirac plasmon polaritons in topological insulator metamaterials, ...

A real-life research lab incident sparks shock—delve into the strange story of a missing specimen and what it revealed.

When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things — including a crucial event that happened ...