Nikon has revealed the winners of the 15th annual Nikon Small World in Motion Video Competition. The contest recognizes the most dynamic microscopic movies or digital time-lapse photography each year.

Back for 2025, Nikon's Small World Photomicrography Competition highlights the complexities of our world beyond the naked eye ...

From secret mushroom worlds to extreme close-ups of cell motion, these photographs represent how, in science, things often ...

New research succeeds in taking a key step towards the production of sustainable chemicals in living microfactories. Fossil raw materials are limited and not available and extractable everywhere in ...

Scientists have made the world's smallest chariot - pulled by microscopic algae. Researchers have created tiny, vehicle-like structures - which see algae caught in baskets attached to the so-called ...

Dr. Allison Hrycik and Kasey Crandall collect algae from a tile station at Long Point State Park. Photo by Jay Young On a sunny Tuesday morning Dr. Allison Hrycik makes her way across a lawn and onto ...

The movement patterns of microscopic algae can be mapped in greater detail than ever before, giving new insights into ocean health. The movement patterns of microscopic algae can be mapped in greater ...

Biology major Polina Kourova '27 spent her summer as a 2025 Eckley Scholar studying the feeding habits of some of Earth’s ...

Microscopic algae that live within reef-forming corals scoop up available nitrogen, store the excess in crystal form, and slowly feed it to the coral as needed, according to a study published in mBio, ...

Phytoplankton is an important component of the food-web and is predated by a wide variety of aquatic organisms, such as water ...

(Nanowerk News) Fossil raw materials are limited and not available and extractable everywhere in the world – as we are becoming acutely aware of right now by the example of fossil fuels and rising ...