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In the 1800s English poet William Blake famously challenged his readers to “see a world in a grain of sand.” If only he had owned a modern microscope. Thanks to increasingly powerful optical tools, we ...

I recently became aware of the Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition ® which recognizes outstanding images of life science specimens captured through light microscopes, using any magnification ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) --Every year, the Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition shines a light on some of the most impressive and visually stunning images of human, plant and animal subjects ...

It's hard to know whether to gasp or laugh at the winning picture in this year's Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition. One thing's for sure: The humped bladderwort is no laughing matter to ...

We can’t complain about the competition between camera giants Nikon and Olympus, seeing as how it means we get to enjoy not one but two annual microscopic photography competitions. We took a peek at ...

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the 2013 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition honors light-microscope images and movies of humans, plants and animals subjects. Here, the first-place winner ...

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