Each year people break out their cameras and microscopes for the Nikon Small World Motion Photomicrography Competition. The submissions give us a unique glimpse into the realm of the extremely tiny.

Witness a rare microscopic view of a worm giving birth, revealing the hidden world of life at an unseen scale. This fascinating footage captures the complexity of reproduction in tiny organisms and ...

A brand new underwater microscope just took an unprecedentedly-close look at the deep seafloor. You can see the footage it took, including a microscopic coral cage-match, right here. The footage was ...

A baby tardigrade riding a nematode won $600 in Nikon's Small World in Motion Video Competition. Quinten Geldhof captured the video using a microscope and an iPhone. His setup cost under $1,000. The ...

The Nikon Small World in Motion contest highlights the best microscope videos taken each year. This year's first-place winner is a video of a polyp bursting out of bright green coral like a beating ...

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Since its beginnings over 400 years ago, microscopy has made leaps and bounds—even zeroing in on individual atoms. Now, as Nick Lunn reports for National Geographic, a new type of microscopy is taking ...

Microscopes let us observe some of the smallest objects in our universe, but with limitations when it comes to movements that can take hours, days, even weeks to play out. So a team of Austrian ...

A video from Cambridge University's Under the Microscope series reveals a battle to the death between a white blood cell and a cancer cell. The T cell (green), which is only 10 microns long, ...