Although the terms brain pliability, brain plasticity, and neuroplasticity are closely tied to the 20th century, the concepts ...

Scientists have discovered a mysterious new structure lurking inside every human cell. These tiny structures, dubbed ...

But plant cells have evolved some wild features that set them apart from animal cells. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll ask: are plants more than the sum of their cells?

English scientist Robert Hooke discovered cells in 1665, looking at cork under a microscope. He introduced the word cell because the patterns made by the cellulose walls of dead cork reminded him ...

When doing my MA degree in the History of Ideas, I stumbled on Hooke’s diary. He was the most extraordinary man, who was the first to observe microorganisms and coined the term cell. He ...

In “Micrographia”, Hooke presented the first depiction of a microrganism, the microfungus Mucor. Robert Hooke used his microscope to study the ancient cells in fossilized wood.

Science This 17th Century Scientist Discovered the Cell. I Discovered His Missing Portrait.

Another groundbreaking discovery in science was the discovery of the cell by Robert Hooke (1635-1703). The iconic image of the breakthrough, published in the first scientific bestseller, 1665’s ...

In 1665, when British polymathic scientist Robert Hooke first discovered cells using a microscope, he also became the first to illustrate these minuscule building blocks of life.

Perhaps Hooke's greatest contribution to science was in the field of biology. Hooke, along with Leeuwenhoek, was the first to construct a practical microscope and use it to study nature. Peering at ...

Robert Hooke discovered the cell, established experimentation as crucial to scientific research, and did pioneering work in optics, gravitation, paleontology, architecture, and more.