This is a genuine image of a cross section of grass leaf under a microscope. No part of the leaf is "smiling" in any literal sense, of course, but the round features known as "vascular bundles" do ...

A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.

UCLA engineers are touting a lens-free cell phone microscope -- a telemedicine innovation lauded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, National Geographic and the National Science Foundation-- as a ...

Researchers have developed two new microscopes, both the first of their kind. The first captures small, fast moving organisms at an unprecedented rate and the second displays large cell samples in ...

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Our window into the cellular world just got a whole lot clearer. By combining two imaging technologies, scientists can now watch in unprecedented 3-D detail as cancer cells crawl, spinal nerve ...