Engineers have developed a technology that turns a conventional light microscope into what's called a super-resolution microscope. It improves the microscope's resolution (from 200 nm to 40 nm) so ...

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 ...

Scientists at Duke University have created a real-time video that captures the frantic movements of a single virus as it tries to infect a cell. The video shows a part of the process that’s normally ...

With a new microscope that's as light as a penny, researchers can now observe broad swaths of the brain in action as mice move about and interact with their environments. As a mouse explores its ...

The Nikon Small World in Motion contest highlights the bestmicroscope videos taken each year. It's tough to capture the world's tiniest organisms in photos, but it's even tougher to capture footage ...

Nikon announced the winners of their annual Small World in Motion competition today and the winning video is a detailed look at the microscopic creatures that help termites digest wood. Still from ...