When you look around your living room, you likely see a clean, quiet space, but on a microscopic level, your home is actually a thrumming metropolis of alien-looking life. Every square inch of your ...

The microscope, a revolutionary instrument that has reshaped our understanding of the world at a microscopic level, has seen substantial advancements since its inception in the 17th century. The most ...

What's it like to zoom into a drop of water? Watching this video makes me feel like I'm riding on a tiny submarine. Things get interesting when the video zooms in past all of the tiny water bubbles, ...

Through a microscopic lens, the heat from an igniting matchstick – captured within one-eight-thousandth of a second – is palpable. A mosaic of caffeine crystals could be mistaken for a work of ...

Traditionally, luminescence has not been able to provide sufficient spatial resolution at the microscopic level without the use of expensive imaging equipment. The new Olympus LV200 microscope has ...