Many spine-bearing creatures, or vertebrates, have a curious bit of tissue deep in their brains called the pineal gland. It ...

The cochlea is the spiral-shaped structure within the inner ear responsible for our sense of hearing. To fully understand hearing functions and open the door to new hearing loss treatments, scientists ...

This story is part of an AI series looking at how WSU is driving innovation in research and teaching through artificial intelligence. View the entire series as it becomes available. In the ...

Brian Sluga's book, "The Shriek I Do Remember," explores his testicular cancer journey, focusing on hope, survival, and mental resilience. The narrative addresses fertility, sexual health, and body ...

Introduction Since general improvements in the prognosis of cancer patients have been achieved through advances in surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy, subsequent infertility in adolescents and ...

Image by the US National Institutes of Health, CC 3.0 Image by the US National Institutes of Health, CC 3.0 A new dual-light microscope lets researchers observe micro- and nanoscale activity inside ...

A new dual-light microscope lets researchers observe micro- and nanoscale activity inside living cells without using dyes. The system captures both detailed structures and tiny moving particles at ...

University of Queensland researchers have created a microscopic "ocean" on a silicon chip to miniaturize the study of wave dynamics. The device, made at UQ's School of Mathematics and Physics, uses a ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina have created microscopic soft robots shaped like flowers that can change shape and behavior in response to their surroundings, just like living ...

From secret mushroom worlds to extreme close-ups of cell motion, these photographs represent how, in science, things often aren't what they seem on the surface. Reading time 3 minutes What you see ...

A microscopic view of a jumping spider, so named because it can leap some 40 times its own body length, which for a 6-foot-tall human would mean 240 feet. (Jiri Cerny / Institute of Molecular Genetics ...

Nikon's annual Small World competition showcases images of a world that humans can't usually see, as captured through the lens of a microscope. Each year, science and art collide with gorgeous results ...