David Scharf is one of the world's leading names in electron microscope photography: those giant, luminescent photos of tiny things like bugs, dust, and nerves.

Nikon's Small World competition recognizes the art and science of microscope photography. This year's winning images reveal firing neurons, the vessels of leaves and eyeballs, and colorful ...

Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography have developed an underwater microscope that's changing how scientists observe bleached coral.

Michael Franklin, a third-year biomedical photographic communications student at Rochester Institute of Technology and a native of Anchorage, Alaska, was among those honored in an international photo ...

Life is pretty interesting, and at the microscopic scale, it can also be beautiful, strange, intriguing, frightening and gross. The winning photos and videos from this year’s Olympus BioScapes ...

Need a reminder that the world we live in is a totally incredible and visually bizarre place? You might consider looking under a microscope. This week, Nikon announced the results of its annual ...

Nikon Small World awards microscope photographer cash prizes for their best microscope pictures each year, and 2016 has brought some truly beautiful images.

A stunning photograph of a fluorescent turtle embryo under a microscope has scooped the top prize in this year's Nikon Small World photomicrography competition, which celebrates photographs taken ...

Around a third of a mile (or 500 meters) wide at its middle, Bennu is full of carbon-bearing compounds and minerals that ...