Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

If you were asked to picture how electrons move, you could be forgiven for imagining a stream of particles sluicing down a wire like water rushing through a pipe. After all, we often describe ...

Cryo-electron tomography (also cryo-ET or electron cryotomography) is a technique where an electron microscope is used to record a series of two-dimensional images as a biological sample held at ...