As space agencies prepare for human missions to the moon and Mars, scientists need to understand how the absence of gravity ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, scientists have pushed the limits of microscopy to capture sharper and deeper views of the brain. Traditional ...

Researchers discover how much inner-ear damage it takes to affect balance, showing why small declines can trigger major symptoms.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Sean Anthony Eddy via Getty Images A microscope’s job is to magnify the minuscule world ...

Caption: Human neutrophils visualized under a confocal microscope with cell membranes stained red and nuclei blue. When faced ...

A live-cell imaging tool allowed researchers to follow influenza A virus through its life cycle in airway organoids, showing ...

Cells are three-dimensional so it makes sense to study them in a three-dimensional context, right? That’s what researchers from the University of Twente in the Netherlands thought, which is why they ...

A toxic protein forms dynamic pores in the membranes of brain cells—and that may be the key to understanding how Parkinson's disease develops. This is the conclusion of a new study from Aarhus ...

Bone health relies on a balance between osteoblasts (builders) and osteoclasts (recyclers). Peak bone mass occurs in early adulthood; deficiencies during this window amplify fracture risks later in ...

What does the inside of a cell really look like? In the past, standard microscopes were limited in how well they could answer this question. Now, researchers from the Universities of Göttingen and ...

When a cell divides, it performs a feat of microscopic choreography—duplicating its DNA and depositing it into two new cells.