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This high-tech gunsight could allow soldiers to shoot around corners, Matrix-style
Sep 17, 2021 10:59 AM
This 120-million-year-old bird may have been one of the first to shake its tail feathers
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Beams of light—not cables—are carrying the internet across a river in the Congo
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Featured in microscopes
Jun 7, 2021
This may be the highest resolution microscope we’ll ever get
Scientists can see individual atoms clearer than ever before, but they might be nearing their journey’s end.
Jan 25, 2021
Check out this 10-billion-pixel, 3D panorama of an iconic painting
You’ll never get this close to “Girl with a Pearl Earring” in real life.
Oct 26, 2020
Can you guess the tiny objects in these zoomed-in photos?
Tour the latest Nikon Small World award winners.
Feb 4, 2020
These trippy images reveal the colorful inner lives of bones
Dive inside the universe of collagen, calcium, cartilage, and more.
Jul 27, 2018
How to build a solar microscope
Project tiny specimens onto the walls of your own home.
Jun 27, 2017
A new microscope uses light to “cut” through tissue samples and find cancer
It could help surgeons remove cancerous breast tissues all at once.
Dec 14, 2016
The year’s best videos starring really, really small things
The secret lives of starfish larvae.
Jul 12, 2016
New Microscope Lets Scientists See Living Corals Dancing Underwater
Looking at small scales in a big field
