A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.

New device could be used to observe structures as small as individual proteins, as well as the environment in which they move ...

Microscopy continues to transform the life sciences. Here are five recent breakthroughs made possible by the technique.

Discover why the witec360 Raman microscope is considered the gold standard for correlative microscopy and nanoscale imaging.

Researchers show that consumer-grade 3D printers and low-cost materials can produce multi-element optical components that ...

Toby Kiers wins the Tyler Prize for revealing the hidden world of mycorrhizal fungi, vital for carbon storage and ...

Researchers used consumer-grade 3D printers to create sub-$1 optical lenses that enable super-resolution nanoscale biological ...

In a new study, we and an international team of scientists examined the behavior of marine viruses in a large band of ...

Measuring just 200 by 300 by 50 micrometers — smaller than a grain of salt and roughly the size of a single-celled paramecium ...

Weighing a single living cell sounds like a party trick, yet the numbers involved are so small that they push the limits of ...

American evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers has now been awarded the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement — sometimes called the “Nobel for the environment” — for her work bringing this ...