Collaborate Disseminate
Using technologies like electron microscopy (EM) it is possible to capture molecular mechanisms in great detail, but not when these mechanisms are currently moving. The field of cryomicroscopy circumvents this …read more Continue reading Cryo-EM: Freezing Time to Take Snapshots of Myosin and Other Molecular Systems
Cornell University enhanced electron microscopy using a technique known as ptychography in 2018. At the time, it allowed an electron microscope to resolve things three times smaller than previously possible. …read more Continue reading Ptychography Shows Atoms at Amazing Revolution
There’s an old joke that you can’t trust atoms — they make up everything. But until fairly recently, there was no real way to see individual atoms. You could infer things about them using X-ray crystallography or measure their pull on tiny probes using atomic force microscopes, but not take …read more
Continue reading New Microscope Directly Images Protein Atoms
The discovery suggests that Natufian hunter-gatherers baked bread from wild grains long before it was cultivated from crops. Continue reading The Oldest Bread Ever Found Dates Back 14,400 Years and Predates Agriculture
Earth survived the solar system’s tumultuous infancy more or less intact. Other planets were not so lucky. Continue reading These Alien Diamonds Belonged to a Lost Mars-Sized World