James Hillier, the Canadian-born physicist who made the first practical electron microscope, then personally convinced hundreds of scientists to use it, has died. He was 91. Hillier died of a stroke ...

[Robert Murray-Smith] wanted to recreate how some ancient microscopes worked: with a drop of water as a lens. The idea is that the meniscus of a drop of water will work as a lens. This works because ...

My first microscope came in a small wooden box about one-third the size of a standard shoe box (not Frye boot size!) that neatly housed the microscope and five surgical tools: two scalpels, one pair ...

THE addresses and papers given in 1920 at the conjoined meeting of the Faraday, Royal Microscopical, Optical and Photomicrographic Societies and Technical Optics Committee of the British Science Guild ...

The Sutter NAN ™ is a focusing nosepiece microscope designed for electrophysiology. The microscope frame is a reimagined version of Sutter's highly stable and adjustable MT-70 manipulator gantry ...

A research team has developed an operando reflection interference microscope (RIM) that provides a better understanding of how batteries work, which has significant implications for the next ...

Scientists at Bielefeld University's Faculty of Physics have succeeded for the first time in imaging the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus with a helium ion microscope. In contrast to the more conventional ...