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

Newcastle University scientist presents rugged, affordable microscope design with plans for parabolic flights and sounding rocket missionsAs many nation’s space agencies prepare to send ...

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 ...

One of the striking aspects of the quantum world is that a particle, say, an electron, is also a wave, meaning that it exists in many places at the same time. In a new study, reported today in Nature, ...

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