Approximately 145 million: That’s the number of specimens – including plants, animals, minerals and human artifacts – curators estimate are held in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

Scientists at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History have developed methods to digitize microscope slides, revealing billions of microfossils previously uncounted in collections. The ...

The utilization of digital microscopes to perform whole-slide imaging (WSI) provides multiple advantages to pathology, bioscience, and healthcare research. However, the ubiquity and simplicity of ...