New microscope captures detailed 3-D movies of cells deep within living systems
Our window into the cellular world just got a whole lot clearer.
By combining two imaging technologies, scientists can now watch in unprecedented 3-D detail...
New ant species from Borneo explodes to defend its colony
Amongst the countless fascinating plants and animals inhabiting the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia, there are the spectacular "exploding ants", a group of arboreal,...
Unprecedented wave of large-mammal extinctions linked to prehistoric humans
Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and other recent human relatives may have begun hunting large mammal species down to size -- by way of extinction --...
Atoms may hum a tune from grand cosmic symphony
Researchers playing with a cloud of ultracold atoms uncovered behavior that bears a striking resemblance to the universe in microcosm. Their work, which forges...
Genetic adaptations to diving discovered in humans for the first time
Evidence that humans can genetically adapt to diving has been identified for the first time in a new study. The evidence suggests that the...
Researchers find that swarms of tiny organisms mix nutrients in ocean waters
Swarms of tiny oceanic organisms known collectively as zooplankton may have an outsize influence on their environment. New research at Stanford shows that clusters...
Where is the universe’s missing matter?
Astronomers using ESA's XMM-Newton space observatory have probed the gas-filled haloes around galaxies in a quest to find 'missing' matter thought to reside there,...
Machine-learning software predicts behavior of bacteria
In a first for machine-learning algorithms, a new piece of software developed at Caltech can predict behavior of bacteria by reading the content of...
Researchers find new way of exploring the afterglow from the Big Bang
Researchers have developed a new way to improve our knowledge of the Big Bang by measuring radiation from its afterglow, called the cosmic microwave...
Characterizing ‘keyhole’ is first step to fighting obesity at cellular level
An international team has uncovered the potential to beat obesity at the cellular level, characterizing for the first time a complex, little-understood receptor type...
Scientists show how salt lowers reaction temperatures to make novel materials
A dash of salt can simplify the creation of two-dimensional materials, and thanks to Rice University scientists, the reason is becoming clear.
Boris Yakobson, a...
