Scripps professor Sumit Chanda says improving coronavirus care is especially important to get ahead of any future mutations or pandemics ...

For the first time, scientists have directly measured “ultraweak” photon emissions from living organisms. In rats this glow fades rapidly after death. In plants it brightens under stress. In the ...

While trying to examine forces on single biomolecules with great precision, researchers have solved their requirement of a dual trap optical tweezers system by inventing their own version of the ...

Understanding what happens inside a material when it is hit by ultrashort light pulses is one of the great challenges of ...

Nikon has revealed the winners of the 15th annual Nikon Small World in Motion Video Competition. The contest recognizes the most dynamic microscopic movies or digital time-lapse photography each year.

A research team led by the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, or CNSI, demonstrated a new type of light-emitting ...

Optical tweezers, first demonstrated in the 1980s and awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, use highly focused beams of ...