From grains of pollen to insects less than a millimeter long, scientists get incredible views of the world by looking through ...

Big and small: RUSH image of the brain of a live mouse. The coloured lines show the motions of labelled immune cells. The image is about 1 cm across. (Courtesy: Jingtao Fan et al/Nature Photonics) A ...

When the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County shut down due to the pandemic in mid-March, Lisa Gonzalez headed home with the expectation that she would be back in a few weeks. But once it ...

Giant prehistoric insects may not have depended on high oxygen levels after all. Scientists now think something else must ...

When Colin Purrington looked at a sample of dried figs under a microscope recently, he answered a question that had been bugging him for years. Inside the chewy fruits, he found the shriveled remains ...

Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. LiveScience A suit a thousand times thinner than a human hair or more can help microscopic animals survive a harsh vacuum, such as would ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (WKRC) — A giant, flying bug found at a Walmart turned out to be a rare insect from the Jurassic period. Michael Skvarla, the director of Penn State University’s Insect ...

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A closer look at seemingly drab, transparent insect wings has revealed realms of previously unappreciated color, visible to the naked eye yet overlooked for centuries. Until now, the wing colors of ...

Matthew S. Lehnert always had a strong interest in microscopy and loved looking at different specimens through microscopes. He owned three microscopes by the time he turned 8. "I had already decided I ...