GE's "Point and Shoot" Microscope Snaps Spectacular Cellular Shots
The universe of the very small is now a little closer thanks to a highly-automated, cell counting microscope-camera hybrid.
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The universe of the very small is now a little closer thanks to a highly-automated, cell counting microscope-camera hybrid.
A glitter-coated surface, you see, is really just a plane of many, many tiny mirrors. And a shattered glitter-reflection can indeed be reconstructed into the face of Obama.
Hawking was candid in his answers, noting that humans need to GTFO of this planet if survival is a thing we want to do.
This beautiful orb is part on an experiment taking place in space, as astronauts are testing how polymers can be formed. In particular, the experiments aim to show if weightlessness can be used to create polymer walls that form shells.
New study shows that internet activity can help a computer understand you, better than real humans who know you.
In the cold doldrums of January, any warm news is good news.
Scientists have developed a technique that physically makes tiny neurons bigger, and yes, it relies on a chemical commonly found in nappies.
And that's not just because you suddenly can't Google everything.
This TedEd video has the scientific answer of exactly what went down over millions of years.
The ability to internally bridge the gap between two ends of severed spinal cord would be nothing short of revolutionary for the neurosurgical field. Oh wait, looks like a team from the EPFL has just invented a way to do just that—in mice.
First, let's assume you are in orbit around the Earth's atmosphere, and you threw the cookie sunward at 25 mph. The most delicious of speeds.
The world's first lump of man-made Plutonium went missing. Here's the elementary tale of its rescue.
Data storage using quantum techniques has, until this discovery, only yielded results lasting milliseconds.
Researchers from Bristol and Dundee bring our collective Holodeck Danger Room fantasies are one step closer to reality.
These sleek, polished metal helmets may look good from the outside, but from the inside, they reveal the world in a whole different way. They allow you to take in your surroundings as if you were an animal.
It's one with a mechanism that could make it particularly resistant to resistance. More significantly, though, is how scientists found it.
