A new microscope for the quantum age: Single nanoscale scan measures four key material properties

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 ...
The Debrief

Scientists Build a Zero-Gravity Microscope and Successfully Test it on the ‘Vomit Comet’

Scientists have invented a low cost, zero-gravity microscope called FlightScope that successfully conducted experiments on ...
Science Daily

Scallop eyes as inspiration for new microscope objectives

Neuroscientists have developed innovative objectives for light microscopy by using mirrors to produce images. Their design finds correspondence in mirror telescopes used in astronomy on the one hand ...

Affordable microscope speeds up malaria diagnosis with AI

Engineers at Stanford University have developed a high-efficiency, battery/solar-operated, autonomous microscope with ...
Ars Technica

This is the first X-ray taken of a single atom

Atomic-scale imaging emerged in the mid-1950s and has been advancing rapidly ever since—so much so, that back in 2008, physicists successfully used an electron microscope to image a single hydrogen ...
Science Daily

Light-weight microscope captures large-scale brain activity of mice on the move

With a new microscope that's as light as a penny, researchers can now observe broad swaths of the brain in action as mice move about and interact with their environments. As a mouse explores its ...
New Electronics

A ‘cutting edge’ technology

“Customisation means that sensors can be arranged in denser arrays, for example up to 16 × 16 elements on a surface, which ...