Each year, science and art collide with gorgeous results in Nikon’s Small World photomicrography competition. Started in 1975, the contest celebrates the beauty of images taken through a light ...

A team from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan has built the tiniest programmable, self-driving ...

In inertial confinement fusion, a capsule of fuel begins at temperatures near zero and pressures close to vacuum. When lasers compress that fuel to trigger fusion, the material heats up to millions of ...

The winners of a microscopic video competition have been announced, and among the remarkable entries is an incredible clip of a tiny tardigrade riding a roundworm. The Nikon Small World in Motion ...

Several cultures portray the world as being carried on the back of a giant turtle. As it turns out, sea turtles really do house an entire world on their backs — one of microscopic organisms, that is!

From embryonic development in fruit flies to a Vermeer made of dog kidneys, the microscopic world has many awesome sights. Reading time 2 minutes Nikon just announced the winners of its 14th annual ...

A recent review published in Engineering highlights particle vision analysis (PVA), a rapidly developing field at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and microscopic imaging. The review ...

Scientists at King’s College London have built the world’s hottest engine—one so extreme that it reaches temperatures higher than the core of the sun. The engine isn’t a motor like you’d find in a car ...

Quantum mechanics describes a microscopic world in which particles exist in a superposition of states—being in multiple ...

A microscopic view of a jumping spider, so named because it can leap some 40 times its own body length, which for a 6-foot-tall human would mean 240 feet. (Jiri Cerny / Institute of Molecular Genetics ...