Around the world, diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis (TB) continue to plague millions of people, causing severe illness and death. In recent years, scientists developed more effective drugs ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan have revealed that cells use a previously unknown feat of molecular craftsmanship to help protect their larger host organisms. The building blocks required ...

A single flat metalens now handles both excitation and fluorescence collection for diamond quantum sensors, enabling ...

Imaging-based single-cell physiological profiling holds great potential for uncovering fundamental bacterial cold shock response (CSR) mechanisms, but its application is impeded by severe focus drift ...

To touch grass, venture outdoors and take a break from doom-and-gloom news, what can one do to pass the time without a smartphone? Perhaps they can take a peek into the infinitesimal world outside ...

An interdisciplinary team of engineers and surgeons at Penn State have created a new class of biomaterial that can better ...

Burned crusts on ancient pottery reveal that Stone Age people cooked fish together with berries, seeds, and other plants.

Researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have found a new way to produce X-rays with wavelengths in what is called the “water window”.

Every year, the College of Natural Sciences invites faculty, staff and students to send in the most striking and fascinating ...

Nerve cells in the brain are constantly bombarded with information from different senses simultaneously. How can the brain prioritize what is most important?

Brunei the orangutan is a good sport when Dr. Lily Parkinson draws some blood. “I'm finding his blood vessel on the ...

For many years, biology textbooks have explained hair growth in a simple way. They say that new cells form at the bottom of ...