MIT engineers used voltage imaging to map single electrical spikes across nearly a whole zebrafish brain at 200 scans per ...

A new microscope can be printed on a flat piece of paper and assembled with a few extra components in less than 10 minutes. All the parts to make it cost less than a dollar, according to Stanford ...

Take a fascinating look at real tears under the microscope and discover the intricate patterns they can form as they dry.

The intricate, hidden processes that sustain coral life are being revealed through a new microscope developed by scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The diver-operated ...

In Nijmegen, Netherlands, researchers have installed the world's first microscope capable of live imaging of biological processes in such detail that moving protein complexes are visible. This new ...

It took about six months for the jungle to kill Aaron Pomerantz’s microscope. An entomologist without a microscope is like an astronomer without a telescope, so Pomerantz needed a replacement. Ideally ...

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Alcon launched Unity M, a surgical microscope designed to increase surgical precision with advanced visualization features ...

Approximately 145 million: That's the number of specimens—including plants, animals, minerals, and human artifacts—curators estimate are held in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

Discover what happens when polarized light passes through a quartz crystal under the microscope. The unique interaction ...

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