An artist has created a microscopic replica of a Picasso painting - which is smaller than a flea and fits in the eye of a needle.

You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light shining at it: Optical light illuminates a material's surface, ...

How physically magnifying objects using a key ingredient in diapers has opened an unprecedented view of the microbial world.

Svenja Kling is a fifth-year PhD student studying marine biology at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Kling ...

The future of acne treatment might look a whole lot different than the range of oral and topical medications currently on ...

A recent international research project has used advanced microscopy techniques and computational modeling to discover why ...

By combining two fundamentally different microscopy techniques, researchers can now measure the optical properties of a ...

The gut microbiome is intimately linked to human health and weight. Differences in the gut microbiome—the bacteria and fungi in the gut—are associated with obesity and weight gain, raising the ...

have found a new way to image layers of boron nitride that are only a single atom thick. This material is usually nearly invisible in optical microscopes because it has no optical resonances. To ...

When single-molecule super-resolution microscopes were first commercialized some 15 years ago, they made headlines for their ability to resolve individual molecules and structures at the nanometer ...

These twisting threads wrapped in thinner, looping strands are the silk of an Australian net-casting spider (Asianopis subrufa), a consummate ambush predator. Instead of building a web and waiting for ...