When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Sean Anthony Eddy via Getty Images A microscope’s job is to magnify the minuscule world ...

A world of the brilliant color, texture and detail found in science comes to life under the microscope through photographs in the 51st annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. Out of the ...

Cells come unhitched from each other in this image of a pistachio hull where it has split. Look at about three o’clock in this photo where it’s violet; the cells look like they're all squished ...

Apatite crystal under a microscope at Paul Fitzgerald’s laboratory at Syracuse University. It was extracted from a granitic rock at the Cauca River Canyon in Colombia. The linear features observed are ...

Boy, here is a pleasant surprise – a commercial site hidden rather invisibly beneath a collection of a lot of cool images and videos. How often does that happen? Certainly not often enough in my book.

After years of development, researchers have managed to shrink two-photon microscopy into a device that can be mounted on rodents’ heads without impeding behaviour. As Weijian Zong stared at a ...