When designing microscopes, optical engineers have long faced a trade-off between speed, field of view and resolution. But ...

A collaborative research group led by Hiroshi Daimon, a specially appointed research fellow at the Institute for Molecular ...

Brookhaven Lab's new electron microscope delivers 200x sharper energy resolution, enabling simultaneous atomic analysis of ...

Bioengineer Manu Prakash and his team at Stanford University have designed a light microscope that not only fits in your pocket but costs less than a dollar to make. "So the starting material looks ...

A new atom holography microscope uses a focused SEM beam to map 3D atomic arrangements in nanoscale regions with about 0.1 angstrom accuracy.

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Life is pretty interesting, and at the microscopic scale, it can also be beautiful, strange, intriguing, frightening and gross. The winning photos and videos from this year's Olympus BioScapes ...

Since the discovery of the microscope over 350 years ago, scientists have gotten really good at looking at tiny things, right down to their atoms. But even the most advanced microscopes have one big ...

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but the inverse is also true: A word is worth a thousand pictures. If I say “bear,” you might picture a grizzly or a black bear, a polar bear, a panda bear, a ...

All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission. This microscope toy is ...

This image was captured with a scanning electron microscope, which fires a beam of electrons at the sample instead of light, ...