Using an electrical field and pressure-driven flow, microswimmers can be directed to follow a defined path within a channel. Credit: Maass. MPI-DS Researchers at Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and ...

The study discovered that some microscopic, single-celled organisms, which are too buoyant to sink beyond about 100 meters, are carried into deeper waters where the lack of sunlight prevents them from ...

The destiny of each cell is easy to map, since the worms become translucent under the light of a microscope and cycle through all developmental stages in about three days. The nematode was the first ...

Started in 1975, the contest celebrates the beauty of images taken through a light microscope. Scientists and hobbyists alike enter, and the winner receives a $3,000 prize. This year, the ...

looks beautiful when viewed under a microscope. Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent Microscopes make the invisible visible, revealing the tiny, hidden details of nature that we can’t see with the ...