Rather than being like battery chargers, mitochondria are more like the motherboard of the cell.

Imagine drawing on something as delicate as a living cell—without damaging it. Researchers at the University of Missouri have ...

My search for answers to these stupendously ambitious questions led me, it now seems inexorably, to mitochondria. This idea ...

To test their new ethanol-ice-based method, researchers used Halobacterium salinarum, a tiny microorganism that makes a purple protein capable of capturing sunlight and turning it into energy ...

A research team from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in collaboration with North Carolina State ...

Those free electrons also get more time to speed up given the size of the target chamber and thereby hit higher speeds. The recent demonstration is a prelude to the signature ZEUS experiment ...

I used to take protein powder. Now I don’t take any supplements. In other words, my diet is boring. Courtesy of Kita Prior to the experiment, the writer’s typical lunch of rice, hummus ...

Photons are an example of a boson, while electrons are a ... However, in our new microscope, we can visualize this wave directly." In their imaging experiments, the MIT team were able to see ...

They lengthened the cell that holds the gas that the laser pulse rams into, helium in this experiment. This interaction produces plasma, ripping electrons off the atoms so that the gas becomes a ...