When thinking about strange animals, we may automatically summon up an image of the famous blobfish with its sullen, slimy face, or the duck-billed platypus, a mammal that has somehow decided to lay ...

When placed inside an electron microscope, the familiar goldenrod transforms into a world of alien-like textures, spiky pollen grains, and intricate cell structures invisible to the naked eye.

The intricate, hidden processes that sustain coral life are being revealed through a new microscope developed by scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The diver-operated ...