If you think of a single atom as a grain of sand, then a wavelength of visible light—which is a thousand times larger than ...

Materials scientists can learn a lot about a sample material by shooting lasers at it. With nonlinear optical microscopy—a ...

A classical way to image nanoscale structures in cells is with high-powered, expensive super-resolution microscopes. As an alternative, MIT researchers have developed a single-step technique for ...

Biologists are very interested in how proteins, lipids and other compounds are organized and interact in systems. Very few organizational details can be gained by using standard transmission-based ...

Researchers from Osaka University combine high-speed atomic force microscopy with a laser light source for real-time observation of azo-polymer films Osaka, Japan – Expanding our scientific ...

Researchers at the University of Münster have combined fluorescence microscopy with MALDI mass spectrometry to visualize ...

Advanced light microscopy techniques are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in diseases Katarina Zimmer, Knowable Magazine Innovative techniques are helping ...

Light-sheet microscopy has emerged as a transformative imaging modality that enables rapid, three‐dimensional visualisation of biological specimens with minimal photodamage. By illuminating samples ...

A team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Porto have created a new way to target cancer—tin-based nanomaterials combined with near-infrared light. Their work has ...

Zhang You of the Entomological Society of China took first place with an image of a rice weevil—an agricultural pest—on a ...