Deep inside a small, windowless room at the University of California, Berkeley, two microscopes are quietly capturing some of ...

As space agencies prepare for human missions to the moon and Mars, scientists need to understand how the absence of gravity affects living cells. Now, a team of researchers has built a rugged, ...

Two heads are better than one, as the saying goes, and sometimes two instruments, ingeniously recombined, can accomplish feats that neither could have done on its own. The microscope combines ...

Nearly 100 years ago, a seemingly simple discovery revolutionized the microscope. The introduction of phase contrast, which ...

What does the inside of a cell really look like? In the past, standard microscopes were limited in how well they could answer this question. Now, researchers from the Universities of Göttingen and ...

Established laboratory tests mainly capture average values across many cells and show, for example, how many cancer cells survive after contact with immune cells.

A new hybrid microscope for the first time allows scientists to simultaneously image the full 3D orientation and position of an ensemble of molecules, such as labeled proteins inside cells. (Nanowerk ...

A scanning electron microscope image of a supergiant Euplotes gigatrox cell. (Ben Larson/Samuel Lord) A newly discovered ...