An international team of researchers led by UT Southwestern Medical Center has developed a versatile light-sheet microscope ...

The iMicro XL15 takes a slightly different approach to smartphone microscopy. Built by the team behind the iMicro Q3p we ...

Stanford scientists have developed a revolutionary microscope that reveals the hidden inner workings of living cells in real time, without the fluorescent labels that can interfere with observations.

For the first time, an international team of researchers from Germany, Thailand, India, China and the United States has ...

Nearly 100 years ago, a seemingly simple discovery revolutionized the microscope. The introduction of phase-contrast, which garnered a Nobel Prize in 1953, brought into clear view structures inside ...

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 ...

Take a closer look at water and other everyday liquids under a microscope. Explore the tiny particles, patterns, and ...

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.

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 ...

Everyday objects reveal fascinating details when viewed under a microscope. Explore the tiny textures, patterns, and structures hidden within familiar items that are usually invisible to the naked eye ...

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 ...