A microscopic 'Christmas tree' is a seasonal look at a remarkable science project that found eerie comparisons between the ...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have created the world's smallest fully programmable ...

These schistosomes are parasitic flatworms that can penetrate human skin and travel through the blood capillaries. They cause serious infections known as schistosomiasis. Judy Sakanari’s lab receives ...

Microscopic fibers secretly shape how every organ in the body works, yet they’ve been notoriously hard to study—until now. A new imaging technique called ComSLI reveals hidden fiber orientations in ...

Studying fabrics at very high magnification helps determine how some face masks filter out particles better than others. And the close-ups reveal an unseen beauty of the mundane objects that have now ...

Justin Zoll's microscopic photography is one of the most perfect fusions of art and science we have ever seen. These mind-bending psychedelic images are all created by placing crystallized substances ...

For more than four decades, Gatlinburg authorities have wondered about the woman whose bones were found under the Ober tramway. Cutting-edge technology used by the Smithsonian Institution could ...

Researchers describe a method to fabricate single-crystal vases several microns in size. The molecules spontaneously grow into the structures after drop-casting. This work may allow new experiments in ...

“Mechanical objectivity,” which Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison trace to the mid-nineteenth century, often coincided with efforts to inscribe nature “directly,” such as through automatic registering ...