A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.

For the first time, high-resolution time-lapse videos of tiny bits of living plants show how they assemble their protective cell walls, researchers report March 21 in Science Advances. The image ...

This image shows two different organisms, an alga and a plant, both of them intriguing to look at under a microscope. The rod-shaped creature is a type of alga called a desmid. It is set against the ...

When a maize plant is attacked by the fungus Ustilago maydis, tumor-like tissue growths occur at the site of infection. How the pathogen causes this response in its host has long been unknown. But a ...