A team of engineers at UCLA has created a 3D-printed attachment that enables smartphone cameras to image particles as small as 90 nanometers. This makes it the first portable, cellphone-based imaging ...

Most of the world of biology, and, indeed, a significant part of physics, is focused on trying to generate a clear image of really tiny stuff. For many reasons, it simply isn’t possible to get better ...

Other devices can take 3-D pictures of tissue below the surface of skin, but a new microscope adds an extra dimension: a spectroscopic "fingerprint" that measures the wavelength (or color) of light ...

Using a “spooky” phenomenon of quantum physics, Caltech researchers have discovered a way to double the resolution of light microscopes. In a paper appearing in the journal Nature Communications, a ...

Scientists are building the world's most advanced extreme-ultraviolet microscope to study and design the photolithography masks, materials, patterns, and architectures essential to the next generation ...

On most of the occasions that I write about microscopy, I talk about big table-top devices with fancy lasers attached to one end and fancy geeks attached to the other. Yet, in my excitement over these ...

The sharpest images ever achieved by optical means have been produced by researchers in Germany. Stefan Hell and Marcus Dyba of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry used conventional ...

The nanoscale X-ray imaging of biological samples could soon be routine in any lab thanks to a breakthrough by physicists in the US. The team has shown that lensless X-ray microscopes do not ...

The video begins with some playful music and we see shots of a Brandeis student working on a dimly lit lab. We see the student on screen and she says: “my name is Fiona Stewart, I’m a double major in ...