Blink and you might miss it, but if you keep your eye on the monitors in professor Sebastian Will's lab, you'll catch a ...

By controlling individual atoms, researchers have demonstrated a way to turn previously unwanted atomic motion into an ...

Using "laser tweezers," researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have measured the strength of the bond between a single integrin molecule on the surface of a platelet and ...

Using laser tweezers, engineers from Bochum assemble microscopic components to larger structures. One day, this method may be used for building micro-robots.

Using laser tweezers, chemists nudged two atoms to bond. It’s the first time chemists have manipulated two atoms to create a compound. GETTING TOGETHER For the first time, ...

Scientists and hackers continue to show that Microsoft's Kinect platform is a boundless source of both creative and useful applications. The latest, a project called HoloHands, seems like ...

The laser beam captures the polystyrene bead in its tweezers-like grip. Manipulating the laser tweezers, Bianco maneuvers the DNA into the path of the ATP, which jump-starts the helicase. The ...

I wish to clarify one point in the article "Special Report: Cell Biologists Combine Old With New Tools" [The Scientist, Dec. 10, 1990, page 28]. Although the article says that Cell Robotics was ...

A pinch of light: Laser 'tweezers' for medicine, communications and harvesting energy by Tel Aviv University This diagram shows TAU's holographic laser tweezers.

Readers were curious about pendulum saws, laser tweezers and more. Your letters and comments on the April 28, 2018 and May 12, 2018 issue of Science News ...

UB physicists are using innovative tools to study the properties of a bizarre class of molecules that may play a role in disease: proteins that cluster together to form spherical droplets inside human ...