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

Throughout history, humans have endeavoured to see things that were too small to be perceived with the naked eye in order to understand our complex world. The first magnifier constructed for ...

Using a tiny, spherical glass lens sandwiched between two brass plates, the 17th-century Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first to officially describe red blood cells and sperm cells ...

A new microscope is capable of live imaging of biological processes in such detail that moving protein complexes are visible. In Nijmegen, the world's first microscope has been installed that is ...