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

Image by the US National Institutes of Health, CC 3.0 Image by the US National Institutes of Health, CC 3.0 A new dual-light microscope lets researchers observe micro- and nanoscale activity inside ...

Both for research and medical purposes, researchers have spent decades pushing the limits of microscopy to produce ever deeper and sharper images of brain activity, not only in the cortex but also in ...

New device could be used to observe structures as small as individual proteins, as well as the environment in which they move ...

Using a tiny, spherical glass lens sandwiched between two brass plates, the 17th-century Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first to officially describe red blood cells and sperm cells ...

A new hybrid microscope for the first time allows scientists to simultaneously image the full 3D orientation and position of an ensemble of molecules, such as labeled proteins inside cells. (Nanowerk ...

Researchers at Helmholtz Munich and the Technical University of Munich have developed a new microscope that significantly improves how bioluminescent signals in living cells can be observed. The ...