Cheese fungus, head lice, human sperm, a bee eye, a microplastic bobble: scientific photographer Steve Gschmeissner has imaged them all under the probing lens of a scanning electron microscope (SEM).

This illustration represents a bacteria being illuminated with mid-infrared in the top left, while visible light from a microscope underneath is used to help capture the image. A team at the ...

The phenomenal new electron microscope (TIME, Dec. 14, 1942) has been taking a good long look at hitherto invisible objects. In the last two issues of the Journal of the American Medical Association, ...

For centuries, scientists have looked through microscopes to witness the worlds of cells and tiny creatures that exist all around us. In this episode, Sam and Deboki learn what it takes to hunt down a ...

At first, the idea feels strange. You eat your own food, take your own vitamins, choose what goes on your plate, so why would ...

On a quiet street in Delft in the 17th century, a draper bent over a piece of fabric with a magnifying glass. He was not a scholar in a grand university or a man with a patron's purse. He was a ...