Each vial sitting atop the frosty shelves, aligned in rows like egg cartons on a grocery store shelf, contains up to a ...

Unlike almost every other kind of microscope, atomic-force microscopes (AFMs) don’t use any kind of optical beam to image ...

Dr. Bobbi Pritt, chair of Clinical Microbiology at Mayo Clinic, explains why early detection and reporting are critical to ...

Approximately 148 million: That’s the number of specimens – including plants, animals, minerals and human artifacts – curators estimate are held in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

Approximately 145 million: That's the number of specimens—including plants, animals, minerals, and human artifacts—curators estimate are held in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

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In museums everywhere, collections departments are troves of historical objects, art, cultural artifacts, and scientific specimens. In our increasingly digital age, it’s easy to forget that in many ...

A new dual-light microscope lets researchers observe micro- and nanoscale activity inside living cells without using dyes. The system captures both detailed structures and tiny moving particles at ...

Parkinson’s Isn’t Just Bad Luck. Scientists Reveal It’s Largely Preventable—and the Culprit Is All Around Us ‘Illegal’: California’s Map Redraw Draws Backlash TSA Has Officially Banned 3 New Items ...

In a remote rainforest in Australia, home to deadly snakes, spiders and creepy-crawlies, scientists have discovered a new species of stick insect they believe is the heaviest ever found in the country ...

China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks fusion limit thought to be impossible ‘That’s on you’: This US mayor has a blunt message for Trump and his ICE agents ECB ...