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World's Most Precise Microscope Headed For UVic

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

A new microscope that views the subatomic universe -- the first of its kind in the world -- is being built for the University of Victoria, Canada, in collaboration with Hitachi High-Technologies.


Study identifies new way to biopsy brain tumors in real time

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new miniature, hand-held microscope may allow more precise removal of brain tumors and an easier recognition of tumor locations during surgery.


Highlight: STM banopatterning on pristine Nb-doped SrTiO3 surfaces

Highlight: STM banopatterning on pristine Nb-doped SrTiO3 surfaces

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Collaborative users from the Advanced Photon Source at the Argonne National Laboratory, working with the Electronic & Magnetic Materials & Devices Group, have found a controllable way to modify the surfaces ...


To peer inside a living cell

To peer inside a living cell

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Quantum mechanics could help build ultra-high-resolution electron microscopes that won't destroy living cells, according to MIT electrical engineers.


Mobile microscopes illuminate the brain

Mobile microscopes illuminate the brain

Biology / Other

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- By building a tiny microscope small enough to be carried around on a rats' head, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, have found a way to ...


Scientists find way to predict stomach cancer relapses

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at the National Cancer Center in Japan have developed a system for detecting 70 percent of postoperative stomach cancer relapses, according to sources.


A New Glance on Microscopic Images

A New Glance on Microscopic Images

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A doctoral student at the research center Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Germany) suggests interpreting the images generated by Kelvin probe force microscopy in a new way. She recently published her ...


Nano Measurement in the 3rd Dimension

Nano Measurement in the 3rd Dimension

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

From the motion sensor to the computer chip - in many products of daily life components are used whose functioning is based on smallest structures of the size of thousandths - or even millionths - of millimetres. ...


Focus on the formation of bones, teeth and shells

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology for the first time have shown the earliest stages in biomineralization, the process that leads to the formation of bones, teeth and sea shells.


Shedding light on cancer cells

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists label cells with coloured or glowing chemicals to observe how basic cellular activities differ between healthy and cancerous cells. Existing techniques for labelling cells are either too slow or too toxic to perform ...


New Danish research shows how oil gets stuck underground

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

It is a mystery to many people why the world is running out of oil when most of the world's oilfields have only been half emptied. However some of the oil that has been located is trapped as droplets of oil in small cavities ...


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Scientists Image the 'Anatomy' of a Molecule (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (43) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, IBM researchers in Zurich, Switzerland, have taken a 3D image of an individual molecule. Using an atomic force microscope, the researchers constructed a "force map" of ...


Physicists find way to explore microscopic systems through holographic video

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Physicists at New York University have developed a technique to record three-dimensional movies of microscopic systems, such as biological molecules, through holographic video. The work, which is reported in Optics Express, has po ...


Quantum gas microscope offers glimpse of quirky ultracold atoms

Quantum gas microscope offers glimpse of quirky ultracold atoms

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at Harvard University have created a quantum gas microscope that can be used to observe single atoms at temperatures so low the particles follow the rules of quantum mechanics, ...


Simultaneous Nanoscale Imaging of Surface and Bulk Atoms

Simultaneous Nanoscale Imaging of Surface and Bulk Atoms

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Brookhaven Lab scientists have developed a new scanning electron microscope capable of selectively imaging single atoms on a surface while simultaneously probing atoms throughout the sample?s ...