Explore 25 astonishing things you can only see under a microscope. Discover hidden universes in everyday objects, from ...

Mimmi Oksman uses the microscope to study diatoms that live in the ocean´s uppermost water layer and are deposited to sediments as they die. Diatoms react sensitively to changes in their living ...

Grab your lab coat, or at least pretend you have one, and prepare to zoom way, way in because we’re about to explore a world ...

Banner image: Diatoms, like this one seen under a microscope, can take on a wide range of shapes, from spheres to triangles and even starbursts. (Credit: Patrick Kociolek) When Patrick Kociolek was ...

Science is supposed to help us see the world more clearly but sometimes, it just reveals how strange it really is. A grain of ...

Diatoms like this one, microscopic plants with silica shells, trapped trace amounts of nitrogen in their shells as they grew. Researchers in the Sigman Lab at Princeton University were able to extract ...

This story originally appeared in Hakai magazine and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Nestled in the heart of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University ...