Explore an ancient ammonite fossil estimated to be around 400 million years old. Under the microscope, its intricate ...

This week's specimen looks almost geological – a jagged reddish-orange seam cutting through pale pink rock, like something ...

Happy Monday! To test your eyes and your science knowledge this week, we've got a fresh round of Microscope Mystery. This ...

Bioengineer Manu Prakash and his team at Stanford University have designed a light microscope that not only fits in your pocket but costs less than a dollar to make. "So the starting material looks ...

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Approximately 145 million: That's the number of specimens—including plants, animals, minerals, and human artifacts—curators estimate are held in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

The intricate, hidden processes that sustain coral life are being revealed through a new microscope developed by scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The diver-operated ...

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but the inverse is also true: A word is worth a thousand pictures. If I say “bear,” you might picture a grizzly or a black bear, a polar bear, a panda bear, a ...

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