At first glance, the image is blurry and puzzling: pairs of red blobs in a simple rectangular pattern, representing something. But what? Atoms. This is the sharpest picture yet taken of atoms, with a ...

With the invention of the electron microscope five decades ago, scientists have discovered blob-like structures in cells that mysteriously form, move and then disappear. Despite that the existence of ...

When the video starts, this wiggling, glowing blue blob seen under a new high-resolution microscope doesn’t look like much. But in just 26 seconds you and I can watch the blob’s tiny cells multiply, ...

What you're looking at above is not bubbles of melted gold on a rusted surface. It's dried-up blobs of espresso coffee. The high-power microscope image is part of Nikon Small World, a contest that ...

Aside from idle curiosity, very few of us need to see inside chips and components to diagnose a circuit. But reverse engineering is another story; being able to see what lies beneath the inscrutable ...

A quivering blob of muscle proteins in a Harvard lab could lead to controllable biomaterials to replace damaged body tissue. The gel stiffens when exposed to ATP, the chemical that cells use to store ...