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

Wesley R. Coe, professor of zoology at Yale during the early 20th century, devoted his career to studying ribbon worms — a group of mostly marine-dwelling creatures that includes more than 1,000 known ...

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 ...

The metal body, glass optics and economical price make the AmScope M150C a good compound microscope for beginners and students. Built with sturdy materials, yet manufactured economically, the AmScope ...

We’re willing to bet it’s been a minute since you prepared slides in a science lab. If your kid’s back-to-school list includes a microscope, you probably need a refresher before beginning your search.

Turn the coarse focus so that the stage is as close to the objective lens as possible. You should not look through the microscope to do this. Place the microscope slide – either one you have prepared, ...