Grain boundaries determine how strong a material is: the more grain boundaries, the stronger the material. Grain boundaries move through a material, but how this movement works had until now remained ...

A new study adds to a growing body of evidence that suggests asteroid impacts played a critical role in the emergence of life ...

Murnane, Kapteyn and their students are no stranger to powerful lasers. The researchers and their colleagues previously ...

Minutes matter when a surgeon is deciding how much tissue to remove. Yet for centuries, medical imaging has leaned on stains ...

Stanford researchers have combined two microscopy techniques to create a one-of-a-kind instrument that can show cell structures interacting in real time at an unprecedented 120-nanometer ...

In a major advance applying insights from quantum physics to the inner workings of biology, a team of WashU researchers has ...

MIT physicists have built a powerful new microscope that uses terahertz light to uncover hidden quantum motions inside ...

Static electricity may seem simple. Students often learn that rubbing a balloon against their hair will cause negatively ...

The human body may seem like a single, self-contained system, but it actually hosts trillions of microscopic organisms. These ...

Built from thickets of glucose, galactose, mannose and more, the glycome plays key roles in cell communication, immunity and ...

Scientists observe a visible time crystal for the first time, revealing a phase of matter that repeats patterns through time.

A new study reveals all five fundamental nucleobases – the molecular “letters” of life – have been detected in samples from ...