An online project that puts access to an extremely powerful electron microscope into the hands of students all over the country has been selected by the journal Science to win the Science Prize for ...

In many communities around the world, students’ ability and enthusiasm to pursue STEM fields in their high school and college careers is limited by a lack of resources which prevent them from ...

With nothing more than a smartphone and less than $10 of trinkets and hardware supplies, students can build their own microscopes. The DIY microscopes can magnify samples up to 175 times with a single ...

On a Friday afternoon outside Pierce Hall, we find ourselves inside a silver, state-of-the-art airstream trailer examining microscopic plankton. Mollie Thurman, our tour guide for the day, is ...

Humans have always wanted to make small things bigger. To see that which is unseen with the naked eye. The inventor of the original microscope happened sometime in the 1600’s, though the inventor is ...

FEI announced Aug 1, 2005 that it is shipping its new scanning/ transmission electron microscope (S/TEM), the Titan(TM) 80-300 as it publicly unveiled the new system at the Microscopy and ...

Paul Dalgarno receives funding from the EU as Co-Investigator on an ERC consolidator grant, the Science and Technologies Facilities Counsel for a CLASP award and the Engineering and Physical Sciences ...

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

Constructed with an LCD digital display, multiple lenses and XY stage plate navigation, the Celestron PentaView feels professional, enables specimens to be viewed by a large audience and is an ...

UPTON, NY--Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have begun building a quantum-enhanced x-ray microscope at the National Synchrotron Light Source II ...

This photograph is part of the series "The Archive," which mines a vast inventory of anatomical models, flap anatomies, gynecological instruments and prosthetic devices collected for their unique ...