A project using the science of light to illuminate proteins at extremely high resolutions has been granted more than €5.6m in European funding. Scientists are developing a new microscope that can ...

Each year, more than 200 million people fall sick with malaria and more than half a million of these infections lead to death. The World Health Organization recommends parasite-based diagnosis before ...

A new holographic microscope allows scientists to see through the skull and image the brain. The new label-free deep-tissue imaging with the wave correction algorithm retrieves the fine neural network ...

A unique type of diamond has been discovered in Australia for the first time, but they're invisible to the naked eye. Metamorphic diamonds are so small it took researchers almost 18 months to detect ...

Built with sturdy materials, yet manufactured economically, the AmScope M150C is portable and the PS25 version comes with a selection of prepared slides; a good choice for a beginner to use at home, ...

The visible patterns produced by the time crystals could be used for data storage and anti-counterfeiting designs.

Modern microscopes opened up the world of the minute to an amazing degree, allowing people to see all the way down to a bacterium wriggling on a slide. But if you want to see down even smaller in ...

Normally at this time of the week, I look at volcanoes from far away - usually not even from the planet. However, this week, I'm going to go in the opposite direction* (so, if you want to skip ahead ...