UC San Diego has created a novel underwater microscope that it says will greatly improve scientists’ ability to study the health of coral reefs — crucial wildlife habitats that also limit coastal ...

A new microscopic imaging system is revealing a never-before-seen view of the underwater world. Researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego have ...

Image caption: Nassau grouper spawning aggregation off Little Cayman, Cayman Islands. Each winter off the western tip of the Caribbean island of Little Cayman, thousands of endangered Nassau grouper ...

The intricate, hidden processes that sustain coral life are being revealed through a new microscope developed by scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Subscribe to our ...

Our new Benthic Underwater Microscope (BUM) changes that. In building our underwater microscopes, we are inspired by oceanographer Victor Smetacek’s question of whether an in situ computerized ...

A Halifax company trying to develop the world's first underwater microscope capable of detecting fluorescence is getting a $500,000 loan from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. from harmful ...

An image of the coral Stylophora pistillata taken with the new micrsope, BUMP. Each polyp has a mouth and a set of tentacles, and the red dots are individual microalgae residing inside the coral ...

Each winter off the western tip of the Caribbean island of Little Cayman, thousands of endangered Nassau grouper gather to spawn under the light of the full moon. The fish pack the coral reef and when ...

We imagine researchers will be eager to point the underwater microscope at kelp forests, rocky reefs, sea grass beds and mangroves. For instance, we’re interested in exploring how kelp propagate as ...

Our new Benthic Underwater Microscope (BUM) changes that. In building our underwater microscopes, we are inspired by oceanographer Victor Smetacek’s question of whether an in situ computerized ...