The laser you see in the photo above may one day enhance images taken by the most powerful microscopes in biology. This advancement, detailed in a paper published in eLife from scientists at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute with the Maxson lab at…
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A trillionth of a second: How lasers may sharpen next-gen cryo-ET microscopy
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Metamaterial image sensor keeps colors clear even under oblique light
Smartphone cameras are becoming smaller, yet photos are becoming sharper. Korean researchers have elevated the limits of next-generation smartphone cameras by developing a new image sensor technology that can accurately represent colors…
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MRI antenna can boost image quality and shorten scan times—without changing existing machines
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of medicine’s most powerful diagnostic tools. But certain tissues deep inside the body—including brain regions and delicate structures of the eye and orbit that are of particular relevance for…
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Webb Reveals Hidden Layers of Uranus’ Upper Atmosphere
For the first time, astronomers have mapped the vertical structure of Uranus’ ionosphere, uncovering unexpected temperature peaks, weakened ion densities, and puzzling dark regions shaped by the planet’s extreme magnetic field. The…
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100-year-old ‘Princess of Bagicz’ mystery solved, fell off a cliff
Initially discovered in 1899, the nicknamed the “Princess of Bagicz” because the only wooden sarcophagus to be found from the Roman Iron Age held a woman with stunningly well-preserved artifacts.
Carved from a single log, its existence…
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Water is bed bugs' kryptonite: The parasites avoid wet surfaces at all costs
Humans tend to fear bed bugs, and rightly so. The bloodsuckers are tough to get rid of once they’ve entered a home. But new research has, for the first time, identified one thing the bugs seem to fear—water and wet surfaces.
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Antarctic drilling peers deep into ice shelf's past
Scientists say they have drilled deeper than ever beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, peering back millions of years to reveal signs it was once, at least in part, open ocean.
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Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today after alleged DDoS attack
Wikipedia editors have decided to remove all links to Archive.today, a web archiving service that they said has been linked to more than 695,000 times across the online encyclopedia.
Archive.today — which also operates under several other…
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Big feelings: Five ways parents can help kids learn to regulate their emotions
Parenting can be hard and can feel especially overwhelming when children have strong emotions, such as anger, frustration or excitement, that they are not always able to regulate on their own.
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