microscopy
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I Want To Live In This Magical Microscopic Ice World
The microscopic world loves to deceive us. This image, for instance, looks like an icy landscape on an alien planet, but it’s actually a thin film of wax, sandwiched between two glass microscope slides and illuminated using linearly polarised light.
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The First Detailed Image Of The World’s Smallest Known Life Form
This picture might look a little grainy, but you’re actually looking at the first detailed image of the ultra-small bacteria that are believed to be “about as small as life can get.”
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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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X-Ray Holographs Can See Moving Objects The Size Of A Virus
When it comes to imaging microscopic objects, you have to make a decision: do you want high resolution images of stationary objects, or coarse images of moving ones? Fortunately, X-ray holography means that may not be the case much longer.