Fifty years since its discovery, scientists have finally worked out how a molecular machine found in mitochondria, the 'powerhouses' of our cells, allows us to make the fuel we need from sugars, a ...

Tiny magnetic bacteria that live in tightly bound groups are showing scientists how life might have evolved complex, multicellular forms. These rare bacteria can’t survive alone – they depend on one ...

Brewer’s yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) under an electron microscope. It’s set to ... who will unite all 16 lab-built chromosomes into fully synthetic yeast. “We didn’t know we could ...

The ‘bunch of dots’ of DNA they saw in the microscope, separated from the chromosomes, but still within the cell nucleus, were often in pairs (now we know because they were replicating).

Lewis Hamilton’s radio exchanges with his race engineer have again been noticed at the F1 Chinese Grand Prix. Hamilton caused a stir on his Ferrari debut in Australia with the nature of his ...

As a young man, Bennie Wint found himself living what he now views as a less than wholesome and fulfilling life: addicted to drugs, owing money to the wrong people, with few real friends, and in what ...

THE detail seen in a highly magnified electron micrograph is to-day limited more by a lack of contrast in the image than by any lack of resolution in the microscope, which is now usually capable ...