Though blurred by steam and radiation, the images provided some information about the conditions inside the reactor. The images are blurred by steam and obscured by radiation. But they are the first ...

WASHINGTON — Researchers have created a photoacoustic imaging endoscope probe that can fit inside a medical needle with an inner diameter of just 0.6 millimeters. Photoacoustic imaging, which combines ...

Endoscopy allows to examine the body with tubular instruments. Examples include colonoscopy of the intestines or gastroscopy of the stomach. However, such endoscopes are often still as thick as a ...

In 1868 a brilliant German physician, Adolph Kussmaul, who discovered many things, talked a sword swallower into swallowing a ...

TOKYO (AP) — Workers inserted a remote-controlled endoscope inside a damaged Japanese nuclear reactor Thursday, hoping the first look inside since the tsunami disaster can help them make repairs. The ...

Move over, colonoscopies—researchers report in ACS Sensors that they've developed a sensor made of tiny microspheres packed ...