This may look like Salvador Dali's Mae West Lips Sofa, but it is a colourised scanning electron microscope image of a diatom - a tiny single-celled marine creature invisible to the naked eye. Diatoms ...

This may look like a gruesome monster from the latest sci-fi event movie, but it is in fact a real creature. No need to panic, though, as the hydrothermal worm is so tiny it requires a powerful ...

Although it may look like a gruesome monster from the latest sci-fi event movie this is in fact a real creature. But do not worry - the hydrothermal worm is so tiny it requires a powerful microscope ...

This image of the fearsome poison fangs of a centipede, magnified so that we can see every hair and battle scar, is one of the finalists in the annual Nikon Small World competition. Now in its ...

IF insects gross you out in real life you probably aren’t prepared for what they look like under an electron microscope. Electron microscopes are used to closely examine the structures of small ...

They look a bit like psychedelic purple space mushrooms – the sort of thing you might see painted on‘Take me to your dealer’-style student posters. That’s oddly appropriate – as the tiny purple sacs ...

Stunning microscope images released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveal the new killer coronavirus in unprecedented detail. Shown as blue dots, the virus, now dubbed ...

Turn the coarse focus so that the stage is as close to the objective lens as possible. You should not look through the microscope to do this. Place the microscope slide – either one you have prepared, ...

Turn the coarse focus so that the stage is as close to the objective lens as possible. You should not look through the microscope to do this. Place the microscope slide – either one you have prepared, ...