A microscope born in post-war JapanThis time, I am introducing an old Olympus biological microscope, the UCE model ...

Imagine a light-as-air sponge cake soaked with a mixture of three kinds of milk: evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk, ...

Light sheet microscopy allows biologists to selectively light up a thin slice of a sample. This method can improve image ...

Rice’s Anna-Karin Gustavsson published a method in Nano Letters expanding the use of light sheet microscopy to include a ...

Key points of this articleThe Nikon Model H is not just a small microscope. Reading the original English instruction manual ...

NASA will move ahead with a new space telescope to see the cold, dusty universe far more sharply than any before it, chasing ...

Imagine a diagnostic test so simple that it needs nothing more exotic than a microscope, a microfluidic chip, and a handful ...

Light scattered in tissue usually ceases to be a useful source of information. But what if, instead of forcing it to travel ...

For decades, the scanning tunnelling microscope has been the gold standard for seeing matter one atom at a time. By hovering ...

A research team at Pennsylvania State University has developed a tiny mirror that can sweep laser light left-right and up-down while also changing its own surface shape to adjust the focal distance.

his MEMS micromirror, shown mounted and connected for testing, can steer a laser beam in two directions while also changing the mirror’s shape to refocus light at different depths. The device could ...