Light doesn’t just help plants grow, it also strengthens their internal structure by tightening the connection between tissues. This added rigidity can actually slow growth, revealing a hidden balance ...

Detailed maps of smell receptors in the nose overturn textbook models of olfactory receptor organization in mice.

A University at Buffalo-led team has found a way to help chiral semiconductors (electronic materials whose structures are ...

How do photosynthetic organisms harvest light so efficiently? To help answer this question, researchers have developed an ultrafast transient absorption microscope with sensitivity approaching the ...

Anyone who has ever used a microscope knows that it takes time to bring a sample into sharp focus. Each time you move the ...

Chiral molecules have structures that cannot be superimposed on their mirror image, like left and right hands. Many ...

A new therapy has the potential to cure hundreds of diseases — and even reverse aging. Credit...Photo illustration by Kensuke ...