How do photosynthetic organisms harvest light so efficiently? To help answer this question, researchers have developed an ultrafast transient absorption microscope with sensitivity approaching the ...

Recent breakthroughs in microscopy are enabling scientists to capture sharper, faster, and more reliable images of live cells and complex 3D samples. Caltech's Digital Defocus Aberration Interference ...

Taking in the View reveals hidden layers in Anna Ticho’s work through photography, long exposure, and digital transformation.

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Polytec's optical measurement equipment focuses on dynamic response measurements. MEMS devices typically have actively moving ...

Pollen, algae, insects, radiolarians – each unique microfossil holds clues to how Earth has changed over millions of years.

Approximately 145 million: That's the number of specimens—including plants, animals, minerals, and human artifacts—curators ...

How do you make four go into one? Very cleverly, it turns out.

The FDA’s recently unveiled plausible mechanism framework may have been forged with individualized therapies in mind, but its principles are not confined to the bespoke. Teresa Buracchio, M.D., head ...

Today we're looking at Atomic Force Microscopy! I built a "macro-AFM" to demonstrate the principles of an atomic force microscope, then we look at a real AFM (an nGauge AFM from ICSPI) and do a few ...