Microscopy continues to transform the life sciences. Here are five recent breakthroughs made possible by the technique.

Measuring just 200 by 300 by 50 micrometers — smaller than a grain of salt and roughly the size of a single-celled paramecium ...

Farmer Wilson Bentley was the first to photograph the tiny snow crystals individually, and his collection reveals that each ...

It’s a good time to look deep into the crystal ball and pull out some ideas of what could happen over the next 12 months.

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By cutting into a tiny throat bone, Princeton's Chris Griffin showed that it belonged to an adult of a smaller tyrannosauroid ...

UIUC's platform, christened Stomata In-Sight, combines laser scanning confocal microscopy, gas exchange instruments and ...

Analysis - Virus. The word evokes images of illness and fears of outbreaks. Yet, in the oceans, not all viruses are bad news.

UK artist David A Lindon’s creations are so incredibly tiny that you can’t even see them with the naked eye. They fit inside ...

Scientists have created a new way to watch plants breathe—live and in high definition—while tracking exactly how much carbon ...

It’s always a shock when a couple we’ve followed for years suddenly calls it quits. Kristy Scott, the face behind those viral ...

An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What ...