A close-up microscopic look at one of the world’s most dangerous insect bites, revealing detail, structure, and biological ...

Big and small: RUSH image of the brain of a live mouse. The coloured lines show the motions of labelled immune cells. The image is about 1 cm across. (Courtesy: Jingtao Fan et al/Nature Photonics) A ...

When the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County shut down due to the pandemic in mid-March, Lisa Gonzalez headed home with the expectation that she would be back in a few weeks. But once it ...

Researchers from Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR), part of Wageningen University & Research, have developed a method for detecting microplastics in farmed insects. This is important because ...

A detailed microscopic view of Australia’s largest spider wasp, highlighting its features and unique biological ...

When Colin Purrington looked at a sample of dried figs under a microscope recently, he answered a question that had been bugging him for years. Inside the chewy fruits, he found the shriveled remains ...

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Cate Wallace (left) and T. Josek in front of the environmental scanning electron microscope used for Bugscope in the Beckman Institute's Microscopy Suite. Bugscope is gearing up to celebrate 25 years ...