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.
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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.
“This is my trophy,” says biologist Michael Edidin, walking across his office at Johns Hopkins University to pick up two oversized clock hands, once part of the stately clock tower that still stands on the Baltimore campus. In his right-hand pocket i
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.
When European explorers and fishermen began to frequent Canada’s shores in the 16th century, they brought with them a plethora of tools and trinkets, including knives, axes, kettles, and blankets. The region’s indigenous people traded the Europeans f
Researchers map pigments in early bird fossils using preserved metallic residues.
The president of the University of the Ryukyus in Japan coauthored a paper containing a duplicated figure.
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