According to conventional wisdom, the compound microscope was invented at the beginning of the seventeenth century and made possible the immediate discovery of cells. This is nonsense. The textbook ...

The death of a three-year-old cancer patient at AIIMS Bhopal has brought an unfamiliar chemical into public discussion: formalin. The 3 year old child, who was undergoing treatment for blood cancer, ...

Biallelic variants in the neuroblastoma amplified sequence (NBAS) gene have been associated with short stature, optic atrophy, and Pelger-Huët anomaly (SOPH) syndrome, infantile liver failure syndrome ...

With millions of electric vehicle batteries nearing the end of their use, researchers have ...

A home machinist and microscopy enthusiast has documented a detailed technical conversion of a scanning electron microscope (SEM) into a transmission electron microscope (TEM), demonstrating that ...

Two cups of warm water don't make one cup of boiling water. But in the quantum world, multiple low-energy photons can combine ...

Since the 1980s, researchers have sought to use laser light to control chemical reactions relevant to photochemistry, catalysis and light-responsive materials. But this technique, known as coherent ...

Scientists have developed a material that converts ordinary sunshine into UV light, opening new possibilities for ...

Today:Early fog in the far southwest clears quickly. Most areas stay dry with sunshine and variable cloud, though northern and northeastern regions may see isolated showers. Light winds overall, ...

Senegenin is the main bioactive ingredient isolated from the dried roots of Polygala tenuifolia Willd. In recent years, senegenin has been proved to possess a variety of pharmacological activities, ...

Pavan Subramani started doing molecular dynamics simulations for computational drug discovery alongside his high school coursework, sparking an interest in a STEM career.