As space agencies prepare for human missions to the moon and Mars, scientists need to understand how the absence of gravity affects living cells. Now, a team of researchers has built a rugged, ...

Getting an up-close view of life at the cellular level can be as simple as placing onion skin under a microscope and adjusting the knobs. Peering deeper, into the heart of the atoms within, isn't as ...

Artificial intelligence tools are increasingly being developed to predict cancer biology directly from microscope images, ...

By combining high-resolution genomic data with AI, researchers are uncovering the regulatory logic plants use to sense and survive environmental stress.

TU Wien has been working with the Munich-based company Cerabyte for some time to develop a new long-term archiving technology: writing information onto a coated glass disc. In the lab, researchers use ...

Learn how to create a simple DIY electrical generator using a few easy-to-find materials. This step-by-step video guides you through making a homemade generator, including winding a copper coil, ...

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.

In this short video I invite you to play a quick game of What’s Under My Microscope with me. We go through three rounds from ...

West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner Simon Foster has launched a drive to get children and young adults aged between 14 and 24 to help scrutinise the force. The Youth Scrutiny Panels will ...

A new leaf imaging system lets scientists watch plant stomata control water loss and carbon uptake in real time.

Around 1.7 billion years ago, eukaryotes—the building blocks of complex life—first appeared on Earth, and now scientists have ...

Learn the distinctions between simple and stratified random sampling. Understand how researchers use these methods to accurately represent data populations.