In late 2019, a novel coronavirus began spreading across the globe. The pandemic still isn’t over, but it hasn’t stopped scientific progress. We spoke with scientists at the Morgridge Institute for ...

Morgridge Postdoctoral Fellow Christian Tentellino’s academic journey brought him to Madison, Wis. to develop imaging tools ...

The average human brain weighs about three pounds, representing about two percent of our body weight. The human heart pumps blood to the entire body, but actually pumps about 20 percent of its total ...

The 6th annual BINA Community Congress, held in conjunction with Images 2 Knowledge, (I2K), brought the multiscale imaging ...

The short answer to the question is that we don’t know. The closest planets to Earth are located millions of miles away, so it’s very difficult to go off and find evidence directly. However, we can ...

Not all plants produce nectar, only plants that are visited by animal-type pollinators. Plants that are wind pollinated, for example, will not produce nectar. You need a flower to make nectar, and ...

Friction is a force that resists sliding motion between contacting surfaces. A bike, for example, has many instances of friction. The brake pads and the wheel rims have friction when we brake. There ...

Approximately 3 million people in the United States are living with a condition called heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, or HFpEF. The number of people with this form of heart failure, ...

The formation of the northern and southern lights—known as aurora borealis and aurora australis—begins with solar flares from the sun. The solar flares eject groups of electrons from the sun that act ...

Interestingly, in the course of the day, your heart will beat somewhere around 100,000 times and over a calendar year might beat up to 35 million times. Over the course of a lifetime then, your brain ...

Spiders have silk-producing glands in their bodies, specifically in their abdomen. In these glands they have the chemical components already put together to produce silk, but it’s in a liquid form.

Light and sound are very different. Sound is actually a mechanical disturbance through air or another medium. Sound always needs a medium to travel through and the type of medium determines its speed.