Ever since 17th century scientist Anton van Leeuwenhoek peered at microbes through a crude optical microscope, the quest for higher performance has been relentless. Just as Leeuwenhoek’s microscope ...

Wesley R. Coe, professor of zoology at Yale during the early 20th century, devoted his career to studying ribbon worms — a group of mostly marine-dwelling creatures that includes more than 1,000 known ...

Michigan Tech’s new Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope lets researchers zoom in to understand the big picture at the atomic scale. Housed in a specially constructed brick building at the south ...

Straining to see the details? Scientists struggling to make out tiny features of samples under the microscope could opt for expensive, higher-resolution equipment – or they could just inflate the ...