New strategies are needed to address the current and future shortages of radioisotopes that threaten medical research and treatment.
New strategies are needed to address the current and future shortages of radioisotopes that threaten medical research and treatment.
Studying the earliest events in visual development, Carla Shatz has learned the importance of looking at one’s data with open eyes—and an open mind.
Take a tour of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), whose ultra-powerful X-ray beam is being used to solve the structures of proteins that are notoriously hard to crystallize.
This animation illustrates optogenetics—a radical new technology for controlling brain activity with light. Ed Boyden, the co-inventor of this technology, is a professor at the MIT Media Lab and at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, where he continues to develop new technologies for controlling brain activity.
A powerful new X-ray–generating laser is imaging smaller crystals than ever before.
A powerful new X-ray–generating laser is imaging smaller crystals than ever before.
A virtual lab—where all sorts of parameters are monitored and recorded—promises researchers a higher degree of reproducibility.
Researchers map pigments in early bird fossils using preserved metallic residues.
Two new approaches to test bone density provide a simpler way to predict risk of osteoporosis.
Scientists invent a method to control the timing and duration of sleep in fruit flies and find that snoozing helps form long-term memories