Scientists have been trying to figure out how it is possible for bacteria to perceive light and react to it ever since they started using microscopes 300 years ago. Scientists have now solved this ...

A team led by physicists Steffen Sahl and Stefan Hell at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen and the MPI for Medical Research in Heidelberg has succeeded in ...

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Cyanobacteria with protein fibres seen through a microscope. The protein fibres are marked 'F'. We all know that we ought to eat less meat and cheese and dig into more plant-based foods. But whilst ...

Three years ago, María del Carmen Muñoz, a researcher at the University of Cordoba, was peering into an electron microscope to study the vesicles of marine cyanobacteria and found, almost accidentally ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Water is the world in which biomolecules drift and connect. Life chemistry is aqueous chemistry — ...