"Our new microscope can be used to explore the effects of different genetic mutations on neuronal function," said Adam Cohen from Harvard University, USA, and the leader of the research team that ...

The intricate, hidden processes that sustain coral life are being revealed through a new microscope developed by scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.The diver-operated ...

Germany, have developed a new method that makes it possible for the first time to image the three-dimensional shape of ...

For the first time, scientists have peered into living cells and created videos showing how they function with unprecedented 3D detail. Using a special microscope and new lighting techniques, a ...

After throwing out what seemed like hundreds of failed ideas, they landed on the Foldscope, an optical microscope based on kirigami, a variation of origami that involves cutting along with folding.

The rise of “big data” today is partly a function of computing technologies that enhanced our data-collecting and processing capabilities, but the microscope had long since taught us that ...

The main difference between these older microscopes and me is that I have a much more powerful electron detector on the receiving end, which allows me to capture details at a much higher resolution.

In 1674, he turned his microscope onto samples of water collected from a nearby lake. He saw thousands of tiny creatures, whose motion “was so swift, and so various upwards, downwards and round ...

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 ...

The microscope is already yielding new insights into the relationship ... proteins produced by the corals themselves and play multiple roles in the coral's life functions. The tool is small enough to ...