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 ...

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 ...

An extremely close-up shot of an ant’s face has gone viral online. The photograph was taken by Lithuanian wildlife photographer Dr. Eugenijus Kavaliauskas, who, according to The New York Post, ...

There are small miracles of nature that we miss so much. The fine details of the natural world can be shown as minute as the veins of a leaf, the ...

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 ...

Orange lines and gold squiggles radiate from the dark center of the image like some sort of astral projection. The vibrant composition actually captures a rodent optic nerve head with its brilliant ...