Part of NASA’s Virtual Laboratory Initiative, the Virtual Microscope website and software from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign offers students and professionals a great introduction to ...

Wesley R. Coe, professor of zoology at Yale during the early 20th century, devoted his career to studying ribbon worms — a group of mostly marine-dwelling creatures that includes more than 1,000 known ...

What’s a budding scientist to do when he/she can’t gain practice doing science in an actual lab? Why, take advantage of virtual labs, of course! The Virtual Labs: Using a Microscope app is one of a ...

Astronomy buffs who jumped at the chance to use their home computers in the SETI@home search for intelligent life in the universe will soon be able to join an Internet-based search for dust grains ...

General Electric Co. and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center have formed a company to help move laboratory analysis of human tissue into the digital age. The company, Omnyx LLC, hopes to ...

The digital imaging of microscope slides is benefiting from machine-vision know-how in the form of high-performance linescan cameras and custom software. James Tyrrell speaks with Hamamatsu’s Paul ...