Every year, scientists and microscope devotees submit their images and movies of life science objects shot under a microscope to the Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition. Artists from 70 ...

It took top prize in the 2009 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition, the world's foremost forum for showcasing microscope photos ... reproduction in simple algae captured in time-lapse ...

Plankton includes marine viruses (the femtoplankton), microscopic algae and bacteria, tiny worms and crustaceans, as well as the egg, juvenile and larval forms of larger animals and plants such as ...

"There's a new instrument that's come out that's essentially an underwater microscope ... eat algae. Right now, water samples must be collected, taken to labs and studies under microscopes.