Hayfever sufferers can now see the face of their invisible enemy - thanks to these amazing microscopic pollen pictures. A Swiss scientists named Martin Oeggerli, who uses the name Micronaut for his ...

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When trying to measure molecular structures with nanometer precision, every bit of noise shows up in the data: someone walking past the microscope, tiny vibrations in the building and even the traffic ...

A hybrid microscope allows scientists to simultaneously image the full 3D orientation and position of an ensemble of molecules, such as labeled proteins inside cells. The microscope combines polarized ...

Caltech scientists have created a quantum microscope that taps into the quirky quantum rules to see tiny details much more clearly. Using pairs of entangled photons allows the instrument to double the ...

To observe living cells through a microscope, a sample is usually squeezed onto a glass slide. It then lies there calmly and the cells are observable. The disadvantage is that this limits how the ...

The Evident Global Image Awards has crowned the worldwide winners for best pictures from under the microscope. And the winner is... This sea star! This was snapped by Laurent Formery from the US and ...

Alex Wild is Curator of Entomology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he studies the evolutionary history of ants. In 2003 he founded a photography business as an aesthetic complement to his ...