In mouse brain cells, and in follow-up work involving worms and human cortical neurons, the team found that many axons ...

Scorpions are armed with dual front pincers (technically known as chelae or pedipalp appendages) and a venom-injecting telson ...

TB tests use phlegm — not the easiest thing to get or work with. It takes time for results. And there can be false negatives ...

INDIO, Calif. — Our most unexpected brush with the ubiquity of influencer culture at Coachella came in our Uber ride to a party. “Are there food influencers?” our driver, John, asks as we sit in heavy ...

Screenshot from Jack White's official Instagram page, via Instagram.com. Used under fair use for editorial commentary. It is striking that after months of rolling out its 2026 line-up and selling out ...

A recent grant from the Todd Barajas Legacy Fund via the Inland Empire Community Foundation is a welcome boost of support for the Coachella Valley Rescue Mission. Scott Wolf, the nonprofit's ...

In 2005, few neuroscientists would have bet that electron microscopy could map entire neural circuits in three dimensions. The technique was slow and cumbersome, offering only thin slices of brain ...

In many ways, Coachella is a strict festival. And just like the event doesn't allow metal water bottles — it WILL get thrown away, so just bring a plastic one — security won't let you bring in a huge ...

Scientists have developed a new imaging technique that uses a novel contrast mechanism in bioimaging to merge the strengths of two powerful microscopy methods, allowing researchers to see both the ...

For those of us who weren't paying attention, over the last few years, scientists around the world have been one-upping each other in a bid to create the smallest QR code that can be reliably read.

Just how small can a QR code be? Small enough that it can only be recognized with an electron microscope. A research team at TU Wien, working together with the data storage technology company Cerabyte ...