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

DURHAM, N.C. -- Engineers at Duke University have developed a microscope that adapts its lighting angles, colors and patterns while teaching itself the optimal settings needed to complete a given ...

Built with sturdy materials, yet manufactured economically, the AmScope M150C is portable and the PS25 version comes with a selection of prepared slides; a good choice for a beginner to use at home, ...

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“Think small” was Walter C. McCrone’s sly motto. Sly, because he was a giant in a very small world. His world was chemical microscopy, which uses microscopical methods to solve problems, such as ...

Inspired by Ernst Abbe's finding that shorter wavelength light leads to higher resolution, August Köhler constructed the first ultraviolet (UV) microscope at Zeiss Optical Works in Jena, Germany, in ...

FIBRES, like most things, need both to A be looked at and looked into, if the best is to be made of them. For thousands of years we were satisfied with the unaided human eye and ‘visible’ lightsuch ...