A team of Dutch and French researchers has built a microscope that can see atomic wave functions. The team has performed an experiment where they ionised xenon atoms in an electric field and recorded ...

A video showing the structure and function of the transmission electron microscope. It details all the different compartments of the transmission electron microscope and the theory and principle of ...

Researchers from the Physical Chemistry and Theory departments at the Fritz Haber Institute have found a new way to image ...

Researchers have built a tiny, lightweight microscope that captures neuron activity with unprecedented speed that can be used ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A journey that began nearly a century ago, when scientists invented ...

It’s relatively easy to understand how optical microscopes work at low magnifications: one lens magnifies an image, the next ...

The history of the electron microscope dates back to early twentieth century when the first electromagnetic lens was developed. This opened the door of possibility to use the principles of the lens to ...

A microscope’s job is to magnify the minuscule world around us. We can observe the tiniest objects, organisms and materials, and investigate their form, texture and composition, to witness what would ...

Head-mounted device on free-moving mice reveals how regions of the brain interact. Researchers from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities College of Science and Engineering and Medical School have ...

For millennia, the smallest thing humans could see was about as wide as a human hair. When the microscope was invented around 1590, suddenly we saw a new world of living things in our water, in our ...