Artist's impression of a split beam with vitamin B12 in a liquid jet. Scientists have developed a new X-ray technique that can capture ultrafast molecular changes in extremely dilute liquid samples - a breakthrough that…
Mares machine
[caption id="attachment_10704" align="alignnone" width="700"] Credit: ESA/NASA[/caption] The Muscle Atrophy Research and Exercise System, or Mares for short, is a three-in-one muscle-measurement machine on the International Space Station to monitor astronauts’ muscles as they work out.…
Live cell imaging of asymmetric cell division in…
An international group of plant biologists have succeeded for the first time in visualizing how egg cells in plants divides unequally after being fertilized. [caption id="attachment_10698" align="alignnone" width="953"] Schematic diagram of how plant cells undergo…
Sweat it Out! Skin Patch Aims to Test…
[caption id="attachment_10694" align="alignnone" width="800"] This photo provided by J. Rogers, Northwestern University, shows a soft, skin‐mounted microfluidic device for capture, collection and analysis of sweat. Time to break a sweat: Researchers are creating a skin…
Adamas Labyrinthus
[caption id="attachment_10691" align="alignnone" width="700"] Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO[/caption] This labyrinth-like system of troughs and plateaus was imaged by ESA’s Mars Express on 21 June 2016. It shows part of a region known…