Engineers have developed a new way to monitor how tiny lab-grown human heart tissues beat—by effectively "listening" to the ...

A Worcester elementary school will begin the next school year with a new STEAM lab and several upgraded learning spaces.

Variants in the DHDDS gene cause a severe neurodegenerative condition, characterized by tremors, seizures, coordination and learning difficulties, usually manifesting in early childhood. This ...

A team led by Raju Tomer, professor of biological sciences at Columbia University, has created a new design for microscopes and microscope lenses that could push 3D tissue imaging beyond ...

Scientists are building autonomous robotic labs powered by artificial intelligence. The goal, they say, is for these robots to take over human researchers' most laborious, time-consuming tasks.

Detail of the laser array that is part of the Interferometric Image Scanning Microscopy technology. Credit: Jim Gensheimer for Stanford University Stanford researchers have developed a microscope that ...

The University of Tennessee at Knoxville takes in roughly 30 human remains cases per year, and a first-of-its-kind laboratory on the UT Medical Center grounds soon will allow the Forensic Anthropology ...

A single flat metalens now handles both excitation and fluorescence collection for diamond quantum sensors, enabling nanoscale sensing in spaces too tight for conventional optics. (Nanowerk Spotlight) ...

The DaXi microscope is a single-objective light-sheet microscope design that combines the advantages of standard single-objective microscopes with the speed, coverage, resolution, and gentleness of ...

For those of us who weren't paying attention, over the last few years, scientists around the world have been one-upping each other in a bid to create the smallest QR code that can be reliably read.

TUCSON, Ariz. (NewsNation) — Chris Nanos has had a long career in law enforcement, but he admits he isn’t used to the amount of scrutiny that has come with leading the investigation into the ...

You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light shining at it: Optical light illuminates a material's surface, while X-rays reveal its internal structures and infrared captures a ...