Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley physicists' new technique offers detailed images of the small molecules and cell structures that ...

A home machinist and microscopy enthusiast has documented a detailed technical conversion of a ...

A team led by Raju Tomer, professor of biological sciences at Columbia University, has created a new design for microscopes ...

Using a tiny, spherical glass lens sandwiched between two brass plates, the 17th-century Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first to officially describe red blood cells and sperm cells ...

Example of super-resolution microscopy: The image shows how the Discrete Molecular Imaging (DMI) technology visualizes densely packed individual targets that are just 5 nanometer apart from each other ...

Overcoming the resolution limit in a light microscope of around half a wavelength of light (about 250 nanometers) is one of the most significant developments in optics. Due to the wave nature of light ...