The sixth annual competition showcases scientific microscopic imaging, illuminating tiny parts of nature, from individual cells to arthropods, diatoms and a zebrafish brain ...

The winning photo of this year’s Evident Image of the Year Award, a microscopic photography contest, has revealed mesmerizing ...

Everyday things look quite different under a microscope - including the leaf of a southern live oak tree, pictured above. Jason Kirk, director of a microscope-imaging facility at Baylor College of ...

Modern microscopes are essentially very specialized camera systems with a powerful zoom, so it’s not surprising that some of the images scientists take while they work are stunning artworks in their ...

This story originally featured on Popular Science. A journey that began nearly a century ago, when scientists invented the first electron microscope, has taken yet another step. “This is the ...

With his camera-mounted microscope, a photographer zooms in to the cellular level to capture the hidden beauty of poplars, pine cones, and dandelions. Red and blue dyes isolate parts of the interior ...

From grains of pollen to insects less than a millimeter long, scientists get incredible views of the world by looking through a microscope. And as researchers conduct their studies, sometimes they ...