Microscopy continues to transform the life sciences. Here are five recent breakthroughs made possible by the technique.

The next time you reach for a memory or make a quick choice, a storm of tiny signals races through your brain. Scientists can ...

The discovery that tissues use electricity to expel unhealthy cells is part of a surge of renewed interest in the currents ...

Electricity has always been central to how life works, from the firing of neurons to the beating of the heart, but new ...

Alzheimer’s disease has long looked like a slow-motion wildfire, starting in one part of the brain and then advancing along ...

Farmer Wilson Bentley was the first to photograph the tiny snow crystals individually, and his collection reveals that each ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a suite of algorithms to automate the counting of sister ...

Researchers from the Optics Group at the Universitat Jaume I in Castellón have managed to correct in real time problems ...

Humans have the remarkable ability to remember the same person or object in completely different situations. We can easily ...

Gossel, Patricia Peck. 2000. [Book review] "Picture control: The electron microscope and the transformation of biology in America, 1940-1960." Bulletin of the history ...