Observing the microscopic creatures that fill our oceans is important work, but keeping your eye on one in the wild is practically impossible — and doing so in a dish isn’t the same. This ...

Armed with a vacuum and microscope, Lisa Guerrero goes looking for creatures that may be living in even the cleanest of homes. Most people have no idea their homes are harboring a hidden microscopic ...

The Homo sapiens view of our world is all a matter of perspective, and we need to remember that we’re among the larger creatures on Earth. At around 1.7 meters in length, we’re much closer in size to ...

Nature has produced some incredibly hardy animals, from the bowhead whale which can live at least two centuries to the crocodile that's lived longer than most people ever will. But while there are ...

One evening earlier this year, I came downstairs after putting our 4-year-old daughter to bed to find my husband looking at a series of maps of the United States, each showing possible futures given ...

A team of Stanford researchers have created a tiny “hydrodynamic treadmill,” essentially an endless loop of water, to closely observe the behavior of marine microorganisms. “It opens scientific ...

The team behind the revolutionary 3D SCAPE microscope announces today a new version of this high-speed imaging technology. They used SCAPE 2.0 to reveal previously unseen details of living creatures - ...

In the store-rooms of the museum, we recently discovered a small microscope made around 1750. The "I. CUFF Londini Inv. & Fec." inscription (which is Latin for "designed and made by I. Cuff of London" ...

The Homo sapiens view of our world is all a matter of perspective, and we need to remember that we’re among the larger creatures on Earth. At around 1.7 meters in length, we’re much closer in size to ...