The modern microscope is an incredibly powerful tool when it comes to detecting disease, but typically the biological material being studied needs to be stained or dyed to reveal its secrets. This can ...

Daniel Urban & Corinne Campbell shows ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander how to collect a simple stomata imprint from plants ...

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 ...

1) Microscope slides and coverglass are used in many parts of the lab while knowledge of how these items are made and the technical properties they have is limited. 2) By not understanding the ...

In the mid- to late-19th century, science gripped the public imagination. Literacy rates were rising, feeding demand for books. Theories, put forward in books like Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, ...

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 ...

You might think that a museum adding 2000 new exhibits would need to build a whole new wing. But the latest additions to London’s Grant Museum of Zoology all fit into a space the size of a large ...

A microscope slide from Charles Darwin's HMS Beagle voyage has sold at auction for three times its estimate - after being found in a cardboard box. The slide, which Darwin used to examine volcanic ...

Victorians were also fascinated by Egyptian mummies. They were collected avidly and even unwrapped at events. Not surprisingly, mummies also found their way under the microscope. These slides contain, ...