As delicious as chocolate is, it's not really much to look at, unless you happen to be looking at it through the eyes of an ...

Plant cells without walls, known as protoplasts, are very fragile, and it has been difficult to keep them alive under a ...

In hopes of seeing why a peppercorn tastes peppery, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) soaked one in water and put it under a ... electron microscope, then enhanced the plants’ parts with ...

and plant biologists delight in reminding others of these plant-derived breakthroughs. The first cell observed under a microscope, back in the mid-1660s by physicist Robert Hooke, was a plant cell in ...

The plant, in turn, offers carbon-rich food ... photographing them every two hours under a microscope. Capturing and analyzing that many images is a daunting task, though.

Imaging wall-less plant cells every six minutes for 24 hours revealed how the cells build their protective barriers.

Let's take a look at how to observe cells under a microscope ... on the slide and stick it on the microscope. Go find those animal cells! Unlike the plant cells, animal cells are soft and fleshy.