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An x-ray laser has imaged the three-dimensional structure of the mimivirus by combining hundreds of measurements on single virus particles.
A new approach is able to quantify the environmental effects on an evolving organism by analyzing just a small number of surviving individuals.
Strands of DNA can be used to generate waves of chemical reactions with programmable shape and velocity.
The seemingly erratic motion of insects in a swarm exhibits the correlated behavior of particles near the critical point of a phase transition.
A new way to characterize the encoding of signals from the retina defines a distance between different stimuli according to the similarity of their neural responses.
The discovery of ferroelecticity in mammalian tissue makes researchers wonder what its purpose is and what it may be useful for.