Familiar things can look very strange when viewed under a microscope – which is why each week we bring you a fresh microscope ...

Happy Monday! To test your eyes and your science knowledge this week, we've got a fresh round of Microscope Mystery. This ...

Watch white blood cells in action as they interact with baker’s yeast under a microscope. Explore this fascinating cellular ...

A tiny head-mounted microscope lets researchers watch and activate individual brain cells while mice move freely.

Bioengineer Manu Prakash and his team at Stanford University have designed a light microscope that not only fits in your pocket but costs less than a dollar to make. "So the starting material looks ...

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 ...

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JEOL Ltd. (President & CEO: Izumi Oi) has developed the benchtop scanning electron microscope (SEM) “JCM-7000Plus” and will begin sales on September 1, 2026. This press release features multimedia. Vi ...

Approximately 145 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.

The intricate, hidden processes that sustain coral life are being revealed through a new microscope developed by scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The diver-operated ...

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 ...

Electron microscopes are used wherever particularly small details need to be imaged. But from a strictly physical point of ...