We’ll understand if you’re puzzled by the eerie image below. It’s a tiny piece of the Lassa virus, which can double a person over in pain, make their head swell and, in some cases, quickly result in ...

To observe living cells through a microscope, a sample is usually squeezed onto a glass slide. It then lies there calmly and the cells are observable. The disadvantage is that this limits how the ...

There’s been a bit of a rush of pocket/ USB digital microscopes recently, but none can hold a candle to this development from the clever chaps at Caltech. They’ve done a neat bit of thinking and ...