Using light to measure ever-smaller objects has been central to progress in many scientific disciplines for centuries. As far back as 1873, German physicist Ernst Abbe proved that light diffraction ...

India’s diagnostic gap spurs rise of smartphone-based microscopy solutions: Samrat Singh: Nandita Vijayasimha, Bengaluru Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 08:00 Hrs [IST] Indian mark ...

Researchers have demonstrated that consumer-grade 3D printers and inexpensive materials can produce advanced optical ...

Researchers at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology) have developed an innovative microscopy ...

Microscopy continues to transform the life sciences. Here are five recent breakthroughs made possible by the technique.

Materials scientists can learn a lot about a sample material by shooting lasers at it. With nonlinear optical microscopy—a specialized imaging technique that looks for a change in the color of intense ...

The demand for disposable miniature imaging platforms (DMIPs) is growing rapidly. Used for commercial, scientific, medical, and educational purposes, DMIPs have numerous applications but can be ...

a, An axi-symmetric binary phase filter (BPF) and image reconstruction network are jointly learned through the physics-informed neural network. The learned BPF is fabricated and inserted in a pupil ...

Engineers have developed an experimental strategy to control and observe the chemical reaction of a single nanocatalyst using an optical microscope -- Expected to contribute to catalyst design based ...

Junior-Professor Daqing Wang from the University of Bonn has received a Proof of Concept Grant from the European Research ...

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