A research group from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology reports in Nature an unprecedented achievement in electron ...

An 18-million-year-old jawbone discovered in Egypt challenges the long-held view that East Africa was the cradle of our modern ape ancestors.

Some of the signs of aging in human cells originate in the cell nucleus, because the packaged form of DNA changes with age. This has now been demonstrated by PSI researchers. It means that older cells ...

In the cloud forest of Costa Rica, many canopy-dwelling animals do their business in strangler fig trees, perhaps as a way of leaving messages ...

Pain in the shoulder can linger long after a rotator cuff tear heals on paper. Even after surgery, strength may not return.

Keeping an eye on the health of area waterways is getting easier. Nonprofit Charleston Waterkeeper now has its own brand-new science lab to help.

Microscopic images of human tissue are a cornerstone of biomedical research and clinical diagnostics. Yet despite their importance, these images often remain difficult to analyze systematically and to ...

The researchers are now able to further increase the amplitude of the scan angle multiplier by making additional changes inside their invention. They have started a company, called Pacific Optica, to ...

With Raman microscopy, there's an additional layer of complexity: fluorescence. Particle fluorescence can overwhelm the Raman signal and make routine analysis more challenging. In comparison, IR ...

A pollen count reflects an actual measurement of the number of grains of pollen in a cubic meter of the air reported by the National Allergy Bureau (NAB) of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & ...

The vacuum ultraviolet region is the area of the electromagnetic spectrum lying between X-rays and visible light. It is ...