Every schoolkid has peered into a microscope and been awed by the hidden world of skin cells and squiggly bacteria. But microscopes are also critical tools for investigating the causes of disease and ...

Researchers have developed a revolutionary microscope that uses an incredibly powerful laser to make previously invisible ...

Take a closer look at a quartz crystal under the microscope and observe its natural features in greater detail. Magnification ...

Some of the most important discoveries in materials science and structural biology come down to a simple question: Where, ...

Take a closer look at a fly under the microscope and observe its physical features in greater detail. Magnification reveals ...

The "cells" that make up our bodies. In fact, in that tiny world, substances like fat are constantly moving. However, it has ...

Researchers have developed a new type of microscope that can acquire extremely large, high-resolution pictures of non-flat objects in a single snapshot. This innovation could speed up research and ...

As light travels deeper into the brain, it scatters. Three-photon microscopy, the current state of the art, reduces the ...

A new microscope can be printed on a flat piece of paper and assembled with a few extra components in less than 10 minutes. All the parts to make it cost less than a dollar, according to Stanford ...

It took about six months for the jungle to kill Aaron Pomerantz’s microscope. An entomologist without a microscope is like an astronomer without a telescope, so Pomerantz needed a replacement. Ideally ...

Approximately 148 million: That’s the number of specimens – including plants, animals, minerals and human artifacts – curators estimate are held in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but the inverse is also true: A word is worth a thousand pictures. If I say “bear,” you might picture a grizzly or a black bear, a polar bear, a panda bear, a ...