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

Medications can save lives, yet for some drugs, the concentration in a patient's bloodstream determines whether a treatment ...

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

Many current microscopy methods increasingly rely on computation as an integral part of the imaging process. This model-based approach to optics—integrating optical system design with algorithmic ...

Rare charcoal fragments from an ancient lakeshore campsite are offering new clues about fire use, resource management, and the environmental knowledge of some of humanity’s earliest fire users.

Benjamin Franklin understood something fundamental about money that still shapes modern economies: Money only works when people believe it is real. In the early 18th century, the British colonies ...

National Geographic Explorer Mackenzie Calle spent 14 days in a Mars simulation program to prepare for humanity's future in ...

The space age was born 100 years ago when Robert Goddard launched a rocket from a Massachusetts field. When golfers launch their tee shots at the ninth hole of the Pakachoag Golf Course in Auburn, ...

Stretching protein samples in all directions pulls molecules farther apart, allowing them to be visualized using only light ...

In this study, a single atom trapped by an optical tweezer was successfully utilized as a scanning probe *4 for imaging the fine structures of intensity and polarization distributions of light ...

A new room-temperature quantum device uses twisted light to entangle photons and electrons, overcoming one of the biggest hurdles in quantum technology. The breakthrough could pave the way for smaller ...