Every winter, as the air sharpens and scarves return to shoulders, an old visitor also makes a reappearance: the flu. It announces itself with fever, aching limbs, and the familiar drip of a runny ...

Scientists have finally watched influenza viruses break into living human cells in real time, catching the microscopic invaders as they latch on, glide across the surface and slip inside. Instead of a ...

Cells may generate their own electrical signals through microscopic membrane motions. Researchers show that active molecular ...

A novel electrode platform detects dopamine from single living brain organoids in real time, enabling non-destructive ...

Researchers have built a tiny, lightweight microscope that captures neuron activity with unprecedented speed that can be used in freely moving animals. The new tool could give scientists a more ...

Inside every living cell, tiny molecular machines are constantly in motion, shifting shapes, tugging on membranes and ...

Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a new vapor-deposition technique that greatly ...

A tiny robot so small it can barely be seen can still "sense, think, and act" autonomously, according to the engineers who ...

The microscopic organisms that fill our bodies, soils, oceans and atmosphere play essential roles in human health and the planet's ecosystems. Yet even with modern DNA sequencing, figuring out what ...

Cell-sized robots can sense temperature, make decisions, and move autonomously using nanowatts of power—no external control ...

A vesicle, only a few nanometers in size and filled with neurotransmitters, approaches a cell membrane, fuses with it, and ...

Researchers developed a tiny, lightweight microscope that captures the electrical spikes of neurons at hundreds of frames per second in awake animals. WASHINGTON — Researchers have built a tiny, ...