Using a reverse-image search via Google Lens (archive), Snopes determined that Pixels, a photography and art hosting website, published the original photograph. Titled, "Polarized light micrograph of ...

Although caffeine is the most widely used drug in the world, many people may not know what the substance actually looks like. In April 2024, a post on Reddit (archive) claimed to show "Caffeine ...

Cells come unhitched from each other in this image of a pistachio hull where it has split. Look at about three o’clock in this photo where it’s violet; the cells look like they're all squished ...

View through the eyepiece of a dissecting microscope showing a group of 25 N. stella foraminifera. Foraminifer are extremely abundant on Earth. Most are only about 300 microns in diameter. Disclaimer: ...

This is part of a NASA-supported project hoping to fabricate "device-ready" wafers from space-grown crystals. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Microscope images that look this way usually get a lot of their color from polarized light—but not this one. Valeriia Poliukhova, a postdoctoral researcher at Georgia Tech, captured this photo using ...

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