A new microscopy technique allows scientists to see single-atom-thick boron nitride by making it glow under infrared light.

In this white paper, the authors describe two approaches to integrating visual stimulation of the retina into a two-photon microscope set-up. They explain that the required equipment and software is ...

To that rude scientist in dim historic time who first acquired the knowledge of a simple lens, how strangely must have come the wizardry of magnifying-glass. Before his wondering eyes his hand was ...

The light microscope was first developed and famously used in the late 1600s by the Dutch naturalist, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, to look at small pond creatures he called "animalcules." Observations ...