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Ever wondered what everyday things under a microscope look like? You’ll never look at a toothbrush—or a grain of salt—the same way again. Microscopic images, major surprises We all mindlessly pick up ...

[Birdbrain] is trying to make their own microfluidic devices. To aid in this quest, they need a quality microscope to see what they’re doing. Instead of buying one outright, they purchased a cheap ...

There’s an old joke that you can’t trust atoms — they make up everything. But until fairly recently, there was no real way to see individual atoms. You could infer things about them using X-ray ...

Everyday things look quite different under a microscope — including the leaf of a southern live oak tree, pictured above. Jason Kirk, director of a microscope-imaging facility at Baylor College of ...

Researchers have developed a new type of microscope that can acquire extremely large, high-resolution pictures of non-flat objects in a single snapshot. This innovation could speed up research and ...

Modern microscopes are essentially very specialized camera systems with a powerful zoom, so it’s not surprising that some of the images scientists take while they work are stunning artworks in their ...

A team led by Raju Tomer, professor of biological sciences at Columbia University, has created a new design for microscopes ...

When trying to measure molecular structures with nanometer precision, every bit of noise shows up in the data: someone walking past the microscope, tiny vibrations in the building and even the traffic ...

The Nikon Small World competition recognizes the art and science of microscope photography, or "microscopy." Scientists, artists, and enthusiasts from all over the world submit their painstakingly ...

So far, the articles in the Basic Microscopy Series, 1,2,3 have described the components of a microscope and how they affect the quality of images. It’s important to understand how a microscope works ...

New images from the CDC show the SARS-CoV2 coronavirus in samples taken from the first American case of COVID-19. Coronavirus particles are artificially colored in blue. We’ve all seen pictures of the ...