Zhang You of the Entomological Society of China took first place with an image of a rice weevil—an agricultural pest—on a ...

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A new imaging technique enables atomic-scale clarity with compact, low-energy electron microscopes, making high-resolution ...

A team of researchers at the University of Victoria (UVic) have achieved an advance in electron microscopy that will allow scientists to visualize atomic-scale structures with unprecedented clarity ...

Microbes make a home among the starch grains of your sourdough starter. Daniel Veghte, CC BY-SA Sourdough is the oldest kind of leavened bread in recorded history, and people have been eating it for ...