Human eyes may be remarkable tools to view the universe, but they also restrict our perception of reality to a limited, macroscopic slice. Fortunately, microscopes grant us access to a fantastic, ...

Sand looks very different through a high-powered microscope. Photographer, biomedical researcher, and inventor Gary Greenberg started taking photos of sand grains with his own light microscope more ...

This soul-chilling pair of eyes belongs to a common jumping spider. "I find that looking directly into a spider's front eyes is very powerful, as it's a perspective many of us aren't used to," says 19 ...

After years of development, researchers have managed to shrink two-photon microscopy into a device that can be mounted on rodents’ heads without impeding behaviour. As Weijian Zong stared at a ...

Most people know Nikon as a purveyor of pro and consumer-grade digital cameras. But the company's expertise with optics bleeds over into related markets—it's one of the science community's major ...

This year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to three scientists whose work has greatly improved what we can look at under a microscope. Things that were once thought too small for optic ...

Microscope picture of human bone cells (IMAGE) Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) Caption A microscope picture of human bone cells (U2OS) showing the localization of ...

Which compound microscope is best? Anybody who is into science has probably thought about getting a microscope. But with so many different types available, it can be overwhelming to decide on the ...