"In contrast, a traditional microscope requires users to carefully follow instructions provided by the manufacturer to perform a high-quality capture," Zhang said. Zhang and his colleagues use an ...

Modern imaging is contributing significantly to giving us a better understanding of how our brains work. In the long term, this will also help us to treat learning disorders in a more targeted way and ...

Editor's Note: In this weekly series, LiveScience explores how technology drives scientific exploration and discovery. Ever since Robert Hooke first made his beautiful sketches of magnified insects, ...

Do you have $10 and a few minutes and a burning need for a microscope? You do. But why would I need a microscope? you say. You do! Examine plant cells, check out the sharpness of your knives, or just ...

Sci-fi movies have shown us what it might be like to shrink down to the size of an ant, or to blow a grasshopper up to the size of a skyscraper. And while a shrink ray may never be a scientific ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." We’re willing to bet it’s been a minute since you prepared slides in a science lab. If your kid’s back-to ...

THE use of the lantern in one of its many forms has become more and more general. In our younger days it was a great and exceptional treat to see a magic lantern entertainment, but now there are ...

This degree of magnification and resolution is made possible by the use of a Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscope, or FIB-SEM. Ordinary microscopes will not produce the same results. Curious ...

A project using the science of light to illuminate proteins at extremely high resolutions has been granted more than €5.6m in European funding. Scientists are developing a new microscope that can ...