Deep inside a small, windowless room at the University of California, Berkeley, two microscopes are quietly capturing some of ...

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

Our brain is a complex organ. Billions of nerve cells are wired in an intricate network, constantly processing signals, enabling us to recall memories or to move our bodies. Making sense of this ...

In 1931, physicists Knoll and Ruska unveiled the first electron microscope, revolutionizing science by using magnetic lenses ...

Modern imaging is contributing significantly to giving us a better understanding of how our brains work. In the long term, this will also help us to treat learning disorders in a more targeted way and ...

The intricate, hidden processes that sustain coral life are being revealed through a new microscope developed by scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Subscribe to our ...

The invention that first enabled researchers to see clear images of living cells was the phase-contrast microscope, which won its inventor, Frits Zernike, a Nobel Prize in 1932. Prior to Zernike's ...

In a cramped, windowless room on the University of California, Berkeley campus, two bespoke microscopes - each a Swiss Army knife for high-resolution imaging - operate around the clock gathering data ...