We can see objects as small as 0.1 millimeters, and that means we can just about see these lice eggs in our hair and tiny single-celled organisms like amoeba. But it's possible to see things much ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Dutch scientist Antony van Leeuwenhoek is credited with inventing the light or optical microscope ...

We need microscopes to study most cells. Microscopes are used to produce magnified images. There are two main types of microscope: Glass was developed by the Romans in the first century. Since then, ...

Engineers have developed a technology that turns a conventional light microscope into what's called a super-resolution microscope. It improves the microscope's resolution (from 200 nm to 40 nm) so ...

State-of-the-art microscopy is a vital tool in understanding the critical mechanisms of cell growth and division. We provide the latest in live cell imaging technology, enabling scientists at The ...

The sight of marine creatures pirouetting beneath the waves might be something you would expect to see in Disney's The Little Mermaid or Finding Nemo. But new technology has now revealed that corals ...

The Wolfson Bioimaging Facility offers a few ways to achieve fluorescence imaging below the 200nm resolution limit of conventional light microscopes. Although broadly termed ‘super-resolution’, these ...

Scientists at Duke University have created a real-time video that captures the frantic movements of a single virus as it tries to infect a cell. The video shows a part of the process that’s normally ...