In the late 1800s to mid 1900s, microscopist C.R. Percival collected and prepared microscope slides that let scientists zoom in on the natural world. His slides capture the colors and textures of life ...

A miniature photograph of the moon, beard hairs whose owner has been dead for centuries, a shaving of Egyptian mummy bone, flowerlike patterns constructed from butterfly scales and algae called ...

(Image credit: Howard Lynk, Victorian Microscope Slides) Slide makers prepared insects like these by using potassium hydroxide to remove their innards, while leaving the hard outer shell, called an ...

Most conventional light microscopes have a resolution of 200 nanometers – this means that imaged objects which are any closer together won't be seen as separate items. A new high-tech microscope slide ...