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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have built a new microscopic imaging instrument that reveals a never-before-seen view of some of the smallest organisms in the world's oceans. WSJ's Monika Auger reports. Photo: Jaffe ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The Homo sapiens view of our world is all a matter of perspective, and we need to remember that we’re among the larger creatures on Earth. At around 1.7 meters in length, we’re much closer in size to ...

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 ...