A miniature microscope hidden in a Cotswolds house has sold for more than £18,000 at auction. The rare scientific instrument, dating from the 18th Century, was sold by auctioneers at Kinghams ...

Professor Timo Betz is a biophysicist at the University of Göttingen in Germany. His name is found on widely cited research papers with serious-sounding titles like Neurite branch retraction is caused ...

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

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

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

This degree of magnification and resolution is made possible by the use of a Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscope, or FIB-SEM. Ordinary microscopes will not produce the same results. Curious ...

We’re willing to bet it’s been a minute since you prepared slides in a science lab. If your kid’s back-to-school list includes a microscope, you probably need a refresher before beginning your search.

This material is usually nearly invisible in optical microscopes because it has no optical resonances. To resolve this issue, ...