Amid the fish tanks and black lab tables in Melanie Fields’ biology classroom, a video camera perched on the eyepiece of a microscope strikes a note of modernity. A cable transmits the camera’s view ...

Last week on the Hacklet we covered optical microscopy projects. Those are the familiar scopes that many of us have at work or even at home on our benches. These are scopes that you typically can use ...

FEI announced Aug 1, 2005 that it is shipping its new scanning/ transmission electron microscope (S/TEM), the Titan(TM) 80-300 as it publicly unveiled the new system at the Microscopy and ...

[Amen] wanted to inspect ICs on the PCBs for suitability for reuse, so he bought a metallurgical microscope that illuminates from above rather than below, since it normally looks at opaque things. It ...

Biomedical engineering students Brandon Buscaglia and Marcus D’Aguiar are helping physicians see the invisible. The undergraduates developed a motorized stage and tracking prototype that works in ...

The microscope, a revolutionary instrument that has reshaped our understanding of the world at a microscopic level, has seen substantial advancements since its inception in the 17th century. The most ...

An online project that puts access to an extremely powerful electron microscope into the hands of students all over the country has been selected by the journal Science to win the Science Prize for ...

Anyone wishing to teach their children about the microscopic world normally unseen in everyday life. Might be interested in a new microscope which has been specifically designed for kids. The Apexel ...

While pursuing a bioengineering PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Wesley Legant ran into a frustrating roadblock: he had ideas, but the equipment to carry them out didn’t yet ...

Ivana Dama is innovating what can constitute a musical instrument, using a microscope and human brain tissue in her latest performance. The third-year design media arts student gave a presentation of ...