This week's specimen looks almost geological – a jagged reddish-orange seam cutting through pale pink rock, like something ...

When designing microscopes, optical engineers have long faced a trade-off between speed, field of view and resolution. But improving one of these properties typically comes at the expense of another.

Within the brain, neurons compute by generating electrical impulses. These signals travel throughout neurons, which are in ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz and the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a miniature microscope that allows scientists to observe and activate individual brain cells ...

Three years after a team of Caltech scientists showed that pairs of entangled photons could double the resolution of a light ...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WLAX/WEUX) – A UW-Eau Claire nursing student is helping make science labs more accessible for students with disabilities after advocating for a new microscope. Kira Schoff, a nursing ...

The sixth annual competition showcases scientific microscopic imaging, illuminating tiny parts of nature, from individual cells to arthropods, diatoms and a zebrafish brain Carlyn Kranking | Associate ...

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Bioengineer Manu Prakash and his team at Stanford University have designed a light microscope that not only fits in your pocket but costs less than a dollar to make. "So the starting material looks ...

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