Nearly 100 years ago, a seemingly simple discovery revolutionized the microscope. The introduction of phase contrast, which ...

Deep inside a small, windowless room at the University of California, Berkeley, two microscopes are quietly capturing some of ...

In a landmark achievement in biological imaging, researchers at Biohub and the University of California, Berkeley today announced the successful demonstration of the laser phase plate, a novel device ...

A potentially undescribed siphonophore. (ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute) An oceanic expedition has turned up 31 new species from a vast, dimly lit habitat between the sunlit surface and the ...

Scientists created the first-ever map of this vast underground fungal network and found it could stretch to the sun and back ...

Researchers Watching Sea Spiders Under a Microscope Saw Something That Made Them Rethink Biology ...

Five winning images from a photo contest show scientists at work and capture the wonder of research and discovery.

A new kernel (core program) within an operating system gives researchers a cleaner view of what's happening inside a ...

In 2025, Anguti Lundrigan, an Inuk chemical engineering student at the University of Alberta, worked with the NRC through the ...

A team led by Raju Tomer, professor of biological sciences at Columbia University, has created a new design for microscopes ...

As a university researcher focused on education, I have spent hundreds of hours designing studies to help the field and that ...

Scientists are building autonomous robotic labs powered by artificial intelligence. The goal, they say, is for these robots ...