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

Most of the time, you assume your brain is either “on” or “off,” awake or asleep. A new study shows something far more ...

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 ...

Early diagnosis and noninvasive monitoring of neurological disorders require sensitivity to elusive cellular-level ...

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

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

In a proof-of-concept study funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC ...

Taking images of tiny structures within cells is tricky business. One technique, cryogenic electron tomography (cryoET), shoots electrons through a frozen sample. The images formed by the electrons ...