Writing in the journal Nature Communications, the team have created a microscope which shatters the record for the smallest object the eye can see, beating the diffraction limit of light. Previously, ...

Usually, catalytic reactions are analyzed by checking which chemicals go into a chemical reactor and which come out. But as it turns out, in order to properly understand and optimize catalysts, much ...

In order to understand brain diseases, neuroscientists try to untangle the intricate nerve fiber labyrinth of our brain. Before analyzing brain tissue under a microscope, it is often soaked in ...

Optical microscopes used to be bulky instruments. The lenses and lights normally needed to illuminate, magnify and focus an image take up a lot of space, and are fragile and expensive to boot. Not any ...

Corals have been filmed moving around underwater at an unprecedented level of detail. Film taken with a newly developed underwater microscope has allowed scientists to look at these tiny organisms at ...

Magnification can be worked out from a photograph or drawing using the equation below: The same unit of measurement should be used when making the calculation - metre (m), millimetre (mm) or ...