Visualising biology is a proven powerful strategy of scientific discovery, with live microscopy being a particularly successful endeavour. But only the latest revolutionary technologies in advanced ...

An engineer at Stanford University has created a DIY microscope, called the Foldscope, that is fashioned out of a single piece of printed-and-folded A4 paper, origami-style. This paper-based ...

In many communities around the world, students’ ability and enthusiasm to pursue STEM fields in their high school and college careers is limited by a lack of resources which prevent them from ...

With nothing more than a smartphone and less than $10 of trinkets and hardware supplies, students can build their own microscopes. The DIY microscopes can magnify samples up to 175 times with a single ...

Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content, as well as featured reporting about current events through a science lens. The new microscope uses a 405 nm laser—the same wavelength ...

An engineer at Stanford University has created a DIY microscope, called the Foldscope, that is fashioned out of a single piece of printed-and-folded A4 paper, origami-style. This paper-based ...

Nic Fleming is a science writer based in Bristol, UK. Scientists are understandably wary of the word ‘revolution’. Major breakthroughs that shake the foundations of established thinking are rare ...

A “world-class” £5 million structural biology centre housing a cutting-edge electron microscope has opened in Glasgow. The microscope, which the centre said is the first of its kind in Scotland, will ...

Instead of watching The Shallows alone on the couch, you get a running commentary from someone who actually studies sharks ...