Researchers have discovered how bacteria break through spaces barely larger than themselves, by wrapping their flagella ...

Scientists have built microscopic, light-powered robots that can think, swim, and operate independently at the scale of ...

In inertial confinement fusion, a capsule of fuel begins at temperatures near zero and pressures close to vacuum. When lasers compress that fuel to trigger fusion, the material heats up to millions of ...

Scientists link tiny particles in blood vessels with substantially higher risk of death ...

Tiny particles are opening big doors for medicine, materials science, and even environmental cleanup. Across the world, scientists are racing to understand how these microscopic swimmers behave, ...

One day microscopic robots could be crawling through your body, clearing out disease or delivering drugs. And now we’re one step closer to that future, as scientists from Cornell University have ...

Microscopic colitis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the colon. It comes in two pathologic forms — collagenous colitis ...

I am a 64-year-old female who is in moderate health. After a monthslong bout of diarrhea, blood work, and a colonoscopy, I’ve been diagnosed with microscopic colitis. After a round of budesonide, my ...

Scientists at King’s College London have built the world’s hottest engine—one so extreme that it reaches temperatures higher than the core of the sun. The engine isn’t a motor like you’d find in a car ...