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 ...

Nearly 100 years ago, a seemingly simple discovery revolutionized the microscope. The introduction of phase contrast, which ...

To test the idea and confirm their newly built microscope was working as hoped, the researchers set out to observe what happened during cell death. They recorded one image encoding information from ...

Chris Doble] has high ambitions: he’s making his own scanning-electron microscope, and as the first step he’s built a ...

Conceptual illustration of the bidirectional quantitative scattering microscope, which detects both forward and backward scattered light from cells. This dual detection enables visualization of ...