Before arriving at Janelia three years ago, Postdoctoral Scientist Antonio Fiore was designing and building optical ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...

The need for new fast classification methods has become increasingly important. When a patient arrives at a medical center ...

Scientists have discovered a unique sequence of minerals that formed from evaporated water in samples from Bennu.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission found ingredients for DNA and RNA on the asteroid Bennu. The discovery shows asteroids could seed planets with the precursors for life. It's also more evidence that life ...

Now, new research has revealed the asteroid contains many of the chemical building blocks of life, such as amino acids and components found in DNA, said Dr. Daniel P. Glavin, senior scientist for ...

How small can an electric motor be without resorting to manufacturing methods like lithography? In a recent video, [Chronova ...

In the case of nanoLED, the “nano” is actually referencing a measurement of size, whereas the “micro” in microLED is a loose reference to the size: about 50 to 100 micrometers. When ...

Discover a microscopic world with one of the best microscopes for students and young scientists, without emptying your wallet — here are our top picks. The best microscopes for students should ...

The authors introduce an optical microscope that uses a solid-state ... with a wide field of view and a resolution of ~10 micrometers.