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Researchers have combined two microscopic imaging techniques in one microscope, providing scientists with a high-resolution method of tracking single molecules in a cellular context. The development ...

Researchers have demonstrated a quantum microscope that can break through a fundamental barrier faced by regular microscopes and see tiny structures that are normally invisible. The device “squeezes” ...

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It took about six months for the jungle to kill Aaron Pomerantz’s microscope. An entomologist without a microscope is like an astronomer without a telescope, so Pomerantz needed a replacement. Ideally ...

A new underwater microscope allows scientists to take their lab right to the bottom of the ocean, where they can get up close and personal with coral and other sea life to see how they behave in their ...

We can now get up close and personal with corals, watching how they kiss and fight, thanks to a new high-tech microscope. Known as the Benthic Underwater Microscope, the device can be used by a single ...

Manu Prakash considers himself lucky. Not because he won a 2016 MacArthur award for his creative inventions, but because his life could have easily turned out differently. Growing up in India, Prakash ...

Constructed with an LCD digital display, multiple lenses and XY stage plate navigation, the Celestron PentaView feels professional, enables specimens to be viewed by a large audience and is an ...

In 1665, English scientist Robert Hooke published Micrographia, a book full of drawings depicting views through what was then a novel invention: the microscope. Peering at a slice of cork through a ...

Francis Ferdinand Lucas, metallurgist and microscopist of Bell Telephone Laboratories, had good news for the members of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers assembled last week ...

Paul Dalgarno receives funding from the EU as Co-Investigator on an ERC consolidator grant, the Science and Technologies Facilities Counsel for a CLASP award and the Engineering and Physical Sciences ...