This week's specimen looks almost geological – a jagged reddish-orange seam cutting through pale pink rock, like something ...

Arco Bast studies how neurons communicate. Earlier this year, the Janelia postdoc encountered a more mechanical version of ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

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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 ...