Humans have always wanted to make small things bigger. To see that which is unseen with the naked eye. The inventor of the original microscope happened sometime in the 1600’s, though the inventor is ...

Optical microscopy is a technique employed to closely view a sample through the magnification of a lens with visible light. This is the traditional form of microscopy, which was first invented before ...

Take their eyes, for instance. Daddy longlegs typically have two median eyes located on the front of the body — for ...

So when I learned that, as of September 1, Europe officially banned a key ingredient found in many gel nail polishes, I ...

Not every wonderful breakthrough in science and technology was created intentionally. A chance discovery or invention is an unexpected realization and insight that occurs without direct intention.

Traces of color blue indigo on 34,000-year-old tools from Dzudzuana Cave reveal that early humans processed plants for dye ...

Scientists at UCL have demonstrated how ribonucleic acid and amino acids could have spontaneously linked together four ...

Sometimes the most extraordinary culinary experiences hide in the most ordinary-looking buildings, and The Tavern in Abingdon, Virginia, is living proof that you should never judge a restaurant by its ...

Researchers have developed a new type of microscope that can acquire extremely large, high-resolution pictures of non-flat ...

Modern imaging is contributing significantly to giving us a better understanding of how our brains work. In the long term, this will also help us to treat learning disorders in a more targeted way and ...

UC Davis researchers have created a miniaturized microscope for real-time, high-resolution imaging of brain activity in mice.