Victorians peered at strange and beautiful things under their microscopes — butterfly scales, insect shells and centuries-old beard hair, for example. Take a peek at some of these antique slides.

“ Coe’s slides are stunning,” said Daniel Drew, museum assistant II in the Peabody Museum of Natural History’s Division of Invertebrate Zoology, where the late zoologist’s handiwork is among about ...

Antique microscope slides reveal obsession with science. A miniature photograph of the moon, beard hairs whose owner has been dead for centuries, a shaving of Egyptian mummy bone, ...

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 ...

These two microscope slides probably represent the earliest artifacts that relate to space medical research. They comprise thin sections of brain and lung tissue taken from mice subjected to 212g's in ...

The slides line the brilliantly backlit walls, showcasing their endless delicate forms and jewel-like colours, which usually come from the stains used in their preparation.

PZT motors make possible an innovative way of digitizing slides of medical specimens. Pathologists need no longer squint through a microscope eyepiece to scrutinize tissue samples thanks to a ...

The Nerdiest Christmas Cards Ever May Be These Microscope Slides Composed of Shells The unusual holiday exchange, which lasted decades during the early 20th-century, hints at the drama between the ...