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“Mechanical objectivity,” which Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison trace to the mid-nineteenth century, often coincided with efforts to inscribe nature “directly,” such as through automatic registering ...

Lead researcher Philippe Marmottant describes the strange walk and jump of the microscopic plant spores Researchers in France have discovered a strange new type of movement in plants - tiny spores ...

These incredible microscopic images of creatures, vitamins, crystals and even a fetus are to be recognised with an award from the Royal Photographic Society. Spike Walker has been fascinated by ...

Although solar-powered devices are now fairly common, Swedish scientists have created something a little different. They've built tiny "metavehicles" that are mechanically propelled and guided via ...

A tiny underwater creature that bears a startling resemblance to a cartoon mouse won this year's Olympus Bioscapes microscopic photography competition, after photographer Charles Krebs captured a tiny ...

Researchers describe a method to fabricate single-crystal vases several microns in size. The molecules spontaneously grow into the structures after drop-casting. This work may allow new experiments in ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

The basic design of the optical microscope has gone unchallenged in 400 years – until now. A British designer has lately done a make-over on this classic instrument, and come up with a new, hand-held ...