Find the sex cells hidden in a bouquet. Dissect a flower to explore the form and function of plant reproductive structures. Examine your intact flower. What do you notice first about it? What are your ...

The intricate, hidden processes that sustain coral life are being revealed through a new microscope developed by scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The diver-operated ...

Six years on from the first iMicro smartphone microscope, the team has unveiled its latest: the iMicro Q3p, a fingertip-sized, lightweight device that makes microscopy inexpensive, portable and ...

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You might think flowers don't have much choice about who they mate with, given they are rooted to the ground and can't move. But when scientists from Nagoya, Japan used powerful microscopes to study ...

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The motion of whizzing electrons has been captured like never before. Researchers have developed a laser-based microscope that snaps images at attosecond — or a billionth of a billionth of a second — ...

ANY biologically aware parent who has started talking about the birds and the bees will have realised halfway through that what they are really discussing is flowers. Bees carry pollen grains from one ...

A study by Nagoya University reveals how Arabidopsis plants attract and repel pollen tubes using specific signals, aiding in precise fertilization and offering insights for agriculture. Credit: Issey ...

NAGOYA, Japan — Researchers at Nagoya University have made an exciting discovery about how flowers reproduce, which could help farmers grow more seeds and improve crops. Their study, recently ...

Researchers have used a unique microscopic technique to examine the dynamics of pollen tubes in the Arabidopsis plant. They were able to observe the mechanism of one-to-one pollen tube guidance, a ...

A group of scientists from Nagoya University in Japan has used a specialized microscopic technique to observe the internal reproduction process of the Arabidopsis plant. Their findings, published in ...