The human body may seem like a single, self-contained system, but it actually hosts trillions of microscopic organisms. These microbes live on the skin, in the mouth, and throughout the digestive ...

Stunning scenes of the world through microscopes have been put on display by the Nikon Small World In Motion competition winners.

Small and almost invisible, the tardigrades, or “water bears”, are among the toughest survivors on Earth. These eight-legged creatures, which are less than one millimeter in length, have won ...

Microscopic robots from Cornell sense the temperature of the liquid around them, pump it with artificial cilia, and change ...

New research has unraveled the mystery of how microscopic cilia coordinate to move and propel marine creatures through water. Cilia are tiny, hair-like protrusions found in many organisms, including ...

From secret mushroom worlds to extreme close-ups of cell motion, these photographs represent how, in science, things often aren't what they seem on the surface. Reading time 3 minutes What you see ...

The mysterious creature was only a single-celled organism; yet looked like an eye and, on closer examination, had most of the features associated with a human eye such as a lens, cornea and retina.