Every October, the greatest honors in science are awarded to researchers whose dedication and genius have brought immeasurable benefits to the world, and every year they are pipped to the post, having ...

Engineers at the California Institute of Technology have designed a dime-sized lensless microscope able to capture high-resolution images of cells and pathogens. The low-cost, portable technology ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mohamed Khalil Elhachimi, Binghamton University, State University of New York (THE ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Pick up a button mushroom from the supermarket and it squishes easily between your fingers. Snap a woody bracket mushroom off a tree trunk and you’ll struggle to break it. Both ...