Approximately 145 million: That's the number of specimens—including plants, animals, minerals, and human artifacts—curators ...

A good cup of espresso is harder to craft than you think. A small change in grind size can turn the same beans into a ...

Pollen, algae, insects, radiolarians – each unique microfossil holds clues to how Earth has changed over millions of years.

Follow the build process of a custom microscope, from a simple single-lens macro setup to a more advanced three-lens ...

(Fabrizio Moglia/Moment Open/Getty Images) Armed with stingers and pincers, scorpions sport some of the most formidable ...

Mini Museum's The Walking Dead collaboration is turning 32 Walking Dead props into tens of thousands of tiny fragments. We ...

Clouds of microplastics concentrate in the air of our homes, and we could be breathing in millions of them each year. A few changes can help us reduce exposure.

Scientists knew the stingers and pincers of these arachnids generally contained metals, but a new Smithsonian-led study maps ...

Over time, plastics break into smaller and smaller fragments called microplastics and — when they’re invisible to the naked eye — nanoplastics. The human body’s mechanisms ...

MIT researchers developed a method for making an iron-containing gel that can form soft, magnetically activated structures.

Under a microscope, a bouquet of lollipop-like structures, each smaller than a grain of sand, waves gently in a petri dish of ...

It arrives already armed, with claws at one end and a hypodermic tail at the other. But under a microscope, its weapons turn ...