For decades, osteoporosis has meant a slow, one way slide toward fragile bones and fracture risk, managed but rarely truly ...

Cancer-diagnosing AI models can secretly read patient demographics from pathology slides, leading to biased results.

Microscopic fibers secretly shape how every organ in the body works, yet they’ve been notoriously hard to study—until now. A new imaging technique called ComSLI reveals hidden fiber orientations in ...

For more than sixty years, one battered skull has stirred a fight that would not fade. The fossil, stored in Ohio, carried a name that many doubted: Nanotyrannus lancensis. Some experts said it was a ...

One of Charles Darwin’s microscope slides from his groundbreaking geological research is set for auction after being discovered in a cardboard box - almost 200 years on. The tiny piece of history, ...

Researchers from Australia’s University of Queensland have made a microscopic “ocean” on a silicon chip to miniaturise the study of wave dynamics. The device, made at UQ’s School of Mathematics and ...

Scientists in China have developed a revolutionary new “bone glue” that can heal fractures, which could traditionally take months to heal, in a matter of minutes, according to a report. Product ...

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A microscope’s job is to magnify the minuscule world around us. We can observe the tiniest objects, organisms and materials, and investigate their form, texture and composition, to witness what would ...

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With his camera-mounted microscope, a photographer zooms in to the cellular level to capture the hidden beauty of poplars, pine cones, and dandelions. Red and blue dyes isolate parts of the interior ...