Accurate measurement results depend on regular microscope calibration to ensure consistency and reliability across scientific and industrial use.

As space agencies prepare for human missions to the moon and Mars, scientists need to understand how the absence of gravity ...

NYU scientists are using light to precisely control how tiny particles organize themselves into crystals. Their research, published in Chem, provides a simple and reversible method for forming ...

As space agencies prepare for human missions to the Moon and Mars, scientists need to understand how the absence of gravity affects living cells. Now, a team of researchers has built a rugged, ...

The awards will support research and development related to artificial intelligence, medical diagnostics, biotechnology, ...

Researchers have been studying tens of thousands of proteins and even more variations without a yardstick to compare their results.

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The history of who invented chocolate and how it's made is as interesting as the food is delicious. Mayans and Aztecs used cacao beans as a form of currency and even offered the beans to their gods.

Physicists in Leiden have built a microscope that can measure no fewer than four key properties of a material in a single scan, all with nanoscale precision. The instrument can even examine complete ...

One way cancer specialists detect the disease is by examining cells and bodily fluids under a microscope, a time-consuming ...

GAITHERSBURG, Md. - The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and (NIST) is allocating funding totaling $3.19 ...

Figure 1: The extension of modular proteins with the AFM. Figure 2: Identification of an unfolding intermediate in the extension of I27 and the prevention of this intermediate by a point mutation.