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It’s relatively easy to understand how optical microscopes work at low magnifications: one lens magnifies an image, the next magnifies the already-magnified image, and so on until it reaches the eye ...

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Anyone who has ever used a microscope knows that it takes time to bring a sample into sharp focus. Each time you move the ...

For more than 30 years, John Oren of Charlotte has sold high-end microscopes to some of the world’s most prestigious laboratories, hospitals, museums and research institutions. His client list ...

You’ve probably seen images of scientists peering down a microscope, looking at objects invisible to the naked eye. Indeed, microscopes are indispensable to our understanding of life. They are just as ...

Approximately 145 million: That's the number of specimens—including plants, animals, minerals, and human artifacts—curators ...

A completely new type of microscope can take 3D images of cells -- while working in a natural environment. The new technology is significantly faster and better than before and will give researchers ...

How do photosynthetic organisms harvest light so efficiently? To help answer this question, researchers have developed an ultrafast transient absorption microscope with sensitivity approaching the ...