A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.

Researchers at the University of California are working on a technology that is able to enhance the resolution of a standard light microscope, allowing it to directly view finer structures and details ...

After only six months from the inauguration of the Joint Electron Microscopy Center at ALBA (JEMCA), this marvel of technology is already feeding published research. In fact, the first paper including ...

Simulated near-field E 2 field enhancement distribution on xz plane with the amplitude mask apodization. (Image: Tomsk Polytechnic University) "If we mask part of an ordinary lens surface with an ...

At the Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville, we have a piece of equipment called a scanning electron microscope. This machine takes up half a room and has its own specially trained ...

As part of a series of electronic professional development experiences, the NASA Explorer Schools project and the National Science Teachers Association are hosting a 90-minute web seminar for ...

Researchers from Tomsk Polytechnic University (Russia) and Bangor University (UK) have experimentally verified anomalous amplitude apodization for non-spherical particles for the first time. This ...