A supplement contextualizes key advances in light microscopy over 400 years, while the Tara expedition sets sail to explore oceanic ecosystems at the microscopic level. Microscopes were also in ...

Before arriving at Janelia three years ago, Postdoctoral Scientist Antonio Fiore was designing and building optical ...

Phytoplankton, tiny plant-like organisms in the ocean, are incredibly important for life on Earth. They're a major food ...

An infrared microscope designed by a University of Iowa team led by Thomas Folland helped produce information that could help ...

combined with an optical microscope to create movies as the polymer films changed. Azo-polymers are photoactive materials, meaning they undergo changes when light is shined on them. Specifically ...

(Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University) The diffraction limit is a fundamental barrier in conventional light microscopy, restricting the spatial resolution to about half the wavelength of the ...

2 scanning electron microscopes (SEM), 2 transmission electron microscopes (TEM), 2 laser scanning confocal microscopes,1 deconvolution light microscope, 1 wide-field multimode light microscope, and 1 ...

This microscope uses high-energy DUV laser light to create a nanoscale interference pattern on a material's surface, heating it in a controlled, periodic pattern. Observing how this pattern fades ...

Scanning near-field optical microscope (SNOM) - using the scattered light through a sub-wavelenght aperture to form an image. (Illustration by Kristian Molhave, Opensource Handbook of Nanoscience and ...