Explore 25 astonishing things you can only see under a microscope. Discover hidden universes in everyday objects, from ...

During the 1960s, researchers worked to overcome a debilitating feature of epifluorescence microscopy — background signals. Efforts began in both America and Czechoslovakia to do away with these ...

Engineers have developed a technology that turns a conventional light microscope into what's called a super-resolution microscope. It improves the microscope's resolution (from 200 nm to 40 nm) so ...

You’ve probably seen images of scientists peering down a microscope, looking at objects invisible to the naked eye. Indeed, microscopes are indispensable to our understanding of life. They are just as ...