The combination of cutting‑edge features is fitting for a facility serving multiple fields including microbiology, food ...

This extreme magnification reveals every detail—from compound eyes to hair-like bristles—in shocking clarity.

Researchers have, for the first time, directly visualized how electronic patterns known as charge density waves evolve across ...

Many scorpion species use blends of iron, zinc and manganese to enhance the toughness of their deadly weaponry ...

Scorpions are the natural world’s original metalheads. Research from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ...

A stretchy, mid-level layer of nanodiamonds allows the typically hard, brittle crystal to bend, not break, under pressure.

“The National Museum of Natural History’s large scorpion collection allowed us to analyze metal enrichment in a wide range of ...

Evident unveiled the winners of its sixth annual Image of the Year contest, an awards competition that recognizes the world’s ...

Smithsonian researchers have found that scorpions use a "skillfully engineered" layout of zinc, manganese, and iron to ...

Scorpions wield some of the natural world's most formidable built-in weapons, from crushing pincers to venomous stingers.

Dolomite has been notoriously impossible to replicate in a lab because of recurring defects in mineral layers—but not anymore ...

Scorpions wield some of the natural world’s most formidable built-in weapons, from crushing pincers to venomous stingers. Scientists have long known that these structures contain trace metals that ...