A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.

Researchers at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin have discovered how catalysts in fuel cells work ...

For centuries, scientists have known that plants "breathe" through microscopic pores on their leaves called stomata. These ...

A new study highlights a semi-transparent, color-tunable solar cell designed to work in places traditional panels can't, like ...

MIT researchers are using living cells to target diseased brain areas and deliver tiny electronic devices that can modulate ...

Life begins with a single fertilized cell that gradually transforms into a multicellular organism. This process requires ...

Weighing a single living cell sounds like a party trick, yet the numbers involved are so small that they push the limits of ...

A new study highlights a semi-transparent, color-tunable solar cell designed to work in places traditional panels can’t, like ...

“I can’t help but notice we are in a Whole Foods,” I tell a Whole Foods employee who—perhaps having noticed me walking around ...

Biologists have long treated cell membranes as passive barriers, thin skins that separate the chemistry of life from the ...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan have built the smallest fully programmable autonomous robots ever ...

Researchers have created microscopic robots so small they’re barely visible, yet smart enough to sense, decide, and move completely on their own. Powered by light and equipped with tiny computers, the ...