New research shows that a network of subcellular structures similar to those responsible for propagating molecular signals ...

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

The world’s fastest electron ... microscope is groundbreaking. It enables researchers to observe and study the behavior of electrons with unprecedented precision. By capturing freeze-frame ...

How electrons arrange and rearrange themselves inside atoms and molecules is an essential ... a newer version of a transmission electron microscope, captures images of electrons in flight by ...

Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

With free-electron lasers, such as the one that will soon be operating at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, X-ray microscopy will eventually allow us to image dynamics of molecules on the ...

When you’ve got a scanning electron microscope sitting around, you’re going to find ways to push the awesome envelope. [Ben Krasnow] is upping his SEM game with a new rig to improve image ...

SEM stands for scanning electron microscope. The SEM is a microscope that uses electrons instead of light to form an image. Since their development in the early 1950's, scanning electron microscopes ...

Light and electron microscopy have distinct limitations. Light microscopy makes it difficult to resolve smaller and smaller ...