Get a close-up look at a weevil drilling into a strawberry under a microscope. Explore the fascinating details of insect ...

Winning entries in the 2026 Nikon Small World competitions reveal the hidden interactions that govern everyday life.

Explore the hidden science of animal samples, food DNA, and common substances through fascinating microscope experiments, ...

Stanford scientists have developed a revolutionary microscope that reveals the hidden inner workings of living cells in real ...

The DNA in our cells wraps around proteins called histones to form nucleosomes, which organize into chromatin. This ...

A new type of advanced microscope (wide-field coherent multidimensional microscopy) has been developed. It uses a carefully designed sequence of ultrashort light pulses to study the behavior of ...

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 ...

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 ...

As electronic components grow ever smaller, a microscope has become an increasingly indispensable tool for any fine work; ...

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 ...