Maybe you remember “the cell” from your high school biology book? A smooth, brownish blob, cut away to show the supposedly neat and orderly components, arranged just so. It was an uncomplicated look ...

The world of YouTube is a beautiful place. One minute you can be watching a cat singing the National Anthem and the next you can learn how to do the perfect cat eye ten different ways. If beauty is ...

Nikon's Small World contest showcases the beauty of life as photographed through a microscope. Here, the winners from 2009's contest. Arabidopsis thaliana is the first plant to have its genome fully ...

It was a typical busy morning. A flurry of people in and out of my office along with a growing stack of slides. I picked up the next slide, a pap smear. The requisition stated “24 yo, routine pap.” ...

Cheese fungus, head lice, human sperm, a bee eye, a microplastic bobble: scientific photographer Steve Gschmeissner has imaged them all under the probing lens of a scanning electron microscope (SEM).

In this episode of MicroBeauty, our resident elegant tie aficionado and beauty expert, Jessica Henderson, tries on a full face of cult favorite makeup products and puts them under a microscope. From ...

Researchers at Imperial College London have developed an ultra-tiny endo-microscope that could help improve breast cancer treatment and cut NHS waiting lists. The endo-microscope, a microscope ...

Plastic bags are often bemoaned as a scourge of the environment, polluting the natural world with unwanted litter. But one professor has shown how they don't necessarily need to be viewed so ...