Stretching protein samples in all directions pulls molecules farther apart, allowing them to be visualized using only light ...

Explore the hidden world around you! Learn how to spot and study microbes using a simple pocket microscope. #MicrobeDiscovery #PocketMicroscope #ScienceFun ...

A chemistry student has won a photo award for a striking image revealing a world most never see: the beauty of scientific ...

Let's take a look at how to observe cells under a microscope. No prizes for guessing the first thing you'll need: a microscope. But don't worry if you don't have one of your own. Ask your school if ...

The Australian ballista spider builds a spring-loaded snare that is set off by ants of one species only. The power is in the ...

Notre Dame University student has won a photography award for a striking image revealing a world most never see ...

A laser (purple) is powerfully amplified by highly polished mirrors and focused on the electron beam (blue) to shift its phase and increase the cryo-EM microscope’s contrast, allowing biologists to ...

When Jasmin Imran Alsous peered down her microscope lens, she expected to see chaos—a mishmash of tangled cells. She was viewing the inside of a male fruit fly's sperm storage organ, using a powerful ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a method that uses a single ion to detect electromagnetic fields above a surface and ...

Although both a SEM and a TEM are electron microscopes, their working principles and images are very different. Whereas an SEM uses secondary electrons ejected after bombarding a sample’s surface with ...

A team led by Raju Tomer, professor of biological sciences at Columbia University, has created a new design for microscopes and microscope lenses that could push 3D tissue imaging beyond ...