But if you were to look even more closely at these crystals through a microscope, you would discover that they aren’t really crystals at all — they are small resin-coated growths that protrude out of ...

Trichomes, those little tiny crystal-like hairs that cover the buds, hold all the good stuff. The different methods of hashmaking focus on isolating these sticky little parts of the cannabis plant ...

Scientists have studied the trichomes (or "cellular factories") of the cannabis plant in extreme detail, revealing that flowers with mushroom-shaped hairs are the most potent—both in terms of smell ...

The photograph is a microscopic image (magnification 800X) of the skin of an immature cucumber. Fruits and vegetables are most vulnerable to predators when they are immature. Cucumbers have developed ...