Researchers built autonomous robots the size of salt grains—with onboard computers, sensors, and motors that think and swim ...

Tiny robots smaller than cells can swim, sense surroundings, and decode temperature through miniature dance-like movements ...

The brain of the robot is a tiny electronic computer that features a processor, memory and sensors, making it the first ...

A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.

Life begins with a single fertilized cell that gradually transforms into a multicellular organism. This process requires ...

When a maize plant is attacked by the fungus Ustilago maydis, tumor-like tissue growths occur at the site of infection. How the pathogen causes this response in its host has long been unknown. But a ...

For centuries, scientists have known that plants "breathe" through microscopic pores on their leaves called stomata. These ...

Belle Collective's Lateshia Pearson enters each episode with the kind of poise that signals she knows precisely where the throne is.

Day to day, it might be tempting to take plants for granted. But you'd do so at your peril; our leafy brethren are staggeringly complex, as revealed when they're put under the microscope. To give ...

We live in an age where taking photographs is easier than ever. The numbers are honestly wild—research suggests roughly 1.8 ...