The invention that first enabled researchers to see clear images of living cells was the phase-contrast microscope, which won its inventor, Frits Zernike, a Nobel Prize in 1932. Prior to Zernike's ...

Light microscopy is a key tool that scientists use to image cells, organelles, subcellular structures, and molecules such as proteins and nucleic acids. Because visible light leaves biological ...

Sulfanilamide is best known as a treatment for yeast infections, but as it turns out, it dazzles under a microscope. Just ask José Manuel Martínez López, a microscopy specialist at the instrumentation ...

Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) led by Prof. ZHANG Douguo have unveiled a planar optical device that significantly enhances the capabilities of dark-field ...

How do organic solar cells work on the inside? The answer lies in structures far too small to see—and difficult to access ...

Professor Iksung Kang, KAIST >Observing the depths of a living brain with clarity has traditionally required expensive, high-end equipment. However ...

The Thermo Scientific Talos F200C TEM is a 20-200 kV thermionic (scanning) transmission electron microscope that has been specifically designed to ensure performance and productivity across a wide ...

How do photosynthetic organisms harvest light so efficiently? To help answer this question, researchers have developed an ultrafast transient ...