Microscope
hideA microscope (from the Greek: μικρός, mikrós, "small" and σκοπεῖν, skopeîn, "to look" or "see") is an instrument for viewing objects that are too small to be seen by the naked or unaided eye. The science of investigating small objects using such an instrument is called microscopy. The term microscopic means minute or very small, not visible with the eye unless aided by a microscope. Anton Van Leeuwenhoek's new, improved microscope allowed people to see things no human had ever seen before.
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News tagged with microscope
Bioengineers develop 'microscope on a chip'
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Jul 28, 2008 |
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Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have turned science fiction into reality with their development of a super-compact high-resolution microscope, small enough to fit on a finger tip. This ...
Scientists Image the 'Anatomy' of a Molecule (w/ Video)
Aug 28, 2009 |
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(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 ...
New wonder material, one-atom thick, has scientists abuzz
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 13, 2009 |
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Imagine a carbon sheet that's only one atom thick but is stronger than diamond and conducts electricity 100 times faster than the silicon in computer chips. That's graphene, the latest wonder material coming out ...
Scientists Produce First Movie of Individual Carbon Atoms in Action (w/Videos)
Mar 31, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Science fiction fans still have another two months of waiting for the new Star Trek movie, but fans of actual science can feast their eyes now on the first movie ever of carbon atoms moving ...
Making a Point: Picoscale Stability in a Room-Temperature AFM
Mar 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Forget dancing angels, a research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado (CU) has shown how to detect and monitor the tiny amount ...
Study of 'Persistent Currents' Finally Verifies Theory
Apr 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Approximately 20 years ago, scientists discovered that is is possible for an electric current to flow endlessly in a ring made of a normal metal. One might think that such an 'old' finding ...
'Most extreme' material: Graphene could be successor to silicon for next generation microchips; 200 times stronger than
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a blown-up image from a scanning tunneling microscope, it looks just like an endless sheet of chicken wire: a simple flat sheet made up of a lattice of hexagons. But this nanoscopic material ...
Stretching the Golgi: a link between form and function
Oct 15, 2009 |
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A research team at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has provided a surprisingly simple explanation for the mechanism and features of the "Golgi apparatus" - a structure that has baffled ...
Sub-atomic-scale Writing Using a Quantum Hologram Sets New Size Record (Video)
Jan 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have set a new world record for the smallest writing, with features of letters as small as 0.3 nanometers, or roughly one third of a billionth of a meter. The accomplishment demonstrates ...
Nanoscale Dimensioning Is Fast, Cheap with New Optical Technique
Oct 29, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A novel technique under development at the National Institute of Standards and Technology uses a relatively inexpensive optical microscope to quickly and cheaply analyze nanoscale dimensions ...
Swiss nano-microscope delivers first images recorded on Mars
Jul 11, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time ever, nanostructures have been measured on another planet. On July 9, the NASA "Phoenix" Mars Probe recorded images with nanometer resolution (one nanometer roughly corresponds ...
McMaster University unveils world's most advanced microscope
Oct 20, 2008 |
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The most advanced and powerful electron microscope on the planet—capable of unprecedented resolution—has been installed in the new Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy at McMaster University.
Phoenix Microscope Takes First Image of Martian Dust Particle
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 14, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has taken the first-ever image of a single particle of Mars' ubiquitous dust, using its atomic force microscope.
Team studies how new helium ion microscope measures up
Sep 04, 2008 |
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Just as test pilots push planes to explore their limits, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology are probing the newest microscope technology to further improve measurement accuracy ...
The sound of light: Innovative technology shatters the barriers of modern light microscopy
Jun 30, 2009 |
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In the past, even modern technologies have failed to produce high-resolution fluorescence images from this depth because of the strong scattering of light. In the Nature Photonics journal, the Munich researchers describe how th ...
