It’s relatively easy to understand how optical microscopes work at low magnifications: one lens magnifies an image, the next ...

What can we learn from seeing the world up close? Life at even the smallest size, like the facets of an insect’s eye, can ...

Leiden researchers can now visualize the connections between brain cells. Their microscopy technique could significantly advance the human quest to understand brain functions. The study is published ...

WHEN public interest in the curiosities of science was widespread, some fifty years ago, the possession of a microscope was a social necessity. The instrument to-day is no longer the popular plaything ...

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...

For years, Yale researchers David Breslow and Mustafa Khokha have worked together with a similar challenge in their ...

First stop is The Valley Primary School in Astley Bridge, where pupils as young as five and six are loving the weekly ...