Nikon announced the winners of their annual Small World in Motion competition today and the winning video is a detailed look at the microscopic creatures that help termites digest wood. Still from ...

The word “protist” has become embedded in Cailyn Crow’s thinking in recent months. It’s a microscopic organism that the Lufkin High School senior has researched and observed — and it’s something she ...

While testing a new way to sequence genes, researchers stumbled upon a very rare divergence in the genetic code, which translates genetic sequences into proteins. The discovery was made in an organism ...