microscopes
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How The Microscope Transformed Science Forever
The microscope is a staple of the scientific community, allowing researchers to study what’s too small to be seen by the naked eye. But how exactly did it rise to such notoriety?
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How Scientists Hacked A Normal Microscope Into A Gigapixel Superscope
Microscopes are a dime a dozen in universities, so there’s plenty of fun to be had hacking ’em any way you can — like a team of researchers from Caltech, who have developed a cheap and easy way to increase their resolution by a factor of 100.
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Monster Machines: Amazing Images Of The Sub-Microscopic World
Optical microscopes are limited by a phenomenon known as the diffraction barrier, wherein the microscope can’t differentiate two objects separated by less than half the wavelength of light used — roughly 200nm on average for the visible spectrum. But by combining powerful optics and cutting-edge rendering algorithms, GE’s new DeltaVision OMX Blaze is bringing this…
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Even The Tiniest Objects On Earth Are Now Viewable In 3D
In a rare example where 3D has the potential to actually be something more than a headache-inducing gimmick, researchers at the Japan Science and Technology Agency have developed the world’s first scanning electron microscope capable of capturing 3D images in real time.