Scientists have built microscopic, light-powered robots that can think, swim, and operate independently at the scale of ...

A team from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan has built the tiniest programmable, self-driving ...

Each year, science and art collide with gorgeous results in Nikon’s Small World photomicrography competition. Started in 1975, the contest celebrates the beauty of images taken through a light ...

Several cultures portray the world as being carried on the back of a giant turtle. As it turns out, sea turtles really do house an entire world on their backs — one of microscopic organisms, that is!

In inertial confinement fusion, a capsule of fuel begins at temperatures near zero and pressures close to vacuum. When lasers compress that fuel to trigger fusion, the material heats up to millions of ...

A recent review published in Engineering highlights particle vision analysis (PVA), a rapidly developing field at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and microscopic imaging. The review ...

The winners of a microscopic video competition have been announced, and among the remarkable entries is an incredible clip of a tiny tardigrade riding a roundworm. The Nikon Small World in Motion ...

A microscopic view of a jumping spider, so named because it can leap some 40 times its own body length, which for a 6-foot-tall human would mean 240 feet. (Jiri Cerny / Institute of Molecular Genetics ...