British engineer-turned-micro artist David Lindon created the world’s smallest ever Lego piece, which is about the size of a ...

To use a light microscope to examine animal or plant cells. To make observations and draw scale diagrams of cells. Turn the coarse focus so that the stage is as close to the objective lens as ...

Phytoplankton, tiny plant-like organisms in the ocean, are incredibly important for life on Earth. They're a major food ...

Kim Morgan has spent the last decade getting really, really close up to blood cells, skin flakes and more. Her artwork using ...

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New research reveals that an area in the brain known as the inferior colliculus plays a critical role in processing both sound and touch in the form of mechanical vibrations to create an augmented ...

Hundreds of different species of microbes live, laugh, and love in your gut. In the future, one of these might serve a new function: microscopic in-house pharmacist.

RNA-based medicines are one of the most promising ways to fight human disease, as demonstrated by the recent successes of RNA ...

University of Maryland researchers used microscopic roundworms as a model to investigate how dsRNA molecules naturally enter cells and influence many future generations. The team discovered multiple ...