What happens when you examine a microscope… under another microscope? Discover the intricate craftsmanship, tiny imperfections, and complex optical details hidden inside this essential scientific tool ...

It turns out you can quite literally see an analog signal if the conditions are right—and you look closely enough.

The new microscope is a so-called multifocus microscope, which provides completely clear images, sorted into different layers, where you can study the cells from all angles. "It's a big deal. The fact ...

A microscope built in the UK is the first in the world to produce 3-D internal pictures of objects. This microscope combines two techniques, X-ray microtomography -- which produces 3-D images from a ...

Apatite crystal under a microscope at Paul Fitzgerald’s laboratory at Syracuse University. It was extracted from a granitic rock at the Cauca River Canyon in Colombia. The linear features observed are ...

Spirulina under a microscope. Lumen Bioscience researchers engineered spirulina to biomanufacture a natural enzyme that they've shown destroys methanogens, the microbes in cows' rumen that produces ...

Researchers from the Physical Chemistry and Theory departments at the Fritz Haber Institute have found a new way to image layers of boron nitride that are only a single atom thick. This material is ...

Caltech scientists have created a quantum microscope that taps into the quirky quantum rules to see tiny details much more clearly. Using pairs of entangled photons allows the instrument to double the ...