Discover whether an affordable digital microscope can reveal water bears, also known as tardigrades. Take a closer look at ...

Explore a drop of rainforest water under the microscope and discover the fascinating microscopic life within one of Earth’s ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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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.

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 ...