Most people know Nikon as a purveyor of pro and consumer-grade digital cameras. But the company's expertise with optics bleeds over into related markets—it's one of the science community's major ...

Sometimes, less is more. Sometimes, more is more. There is a type of person who believes that if enough photos of the same subject are taken, one of them will shine above the rest as a gleaming ...

This image of the fearsome poison fangs of a centipede, magnified so that we can see every hair and battle scar, is one of the finalists in the annual Nikon Small World competition. Now in its ...

A look beneath the surface: Research team makes hidden structural and magnetic properties visible. (Nanowerk News) Scientists use scanning tunnelling microscopy to understand how a material’s ...

Very small things can make a really big impression, if you look closely enough. This year's best microscope photos from the Nikon Small World contest will give you an eyeful of some of the amazing ...