New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, takes a closer look at a structure found in multiple 518 million-year-old ...

Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany) ceremonially commissioned a state-of-the-art cryo plasma-FIB scanning electron microscope with nanomanipulator ...

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With a so-called cryo plasma-FIB (Plasma Focused Ion Beam) scanning electron microscope with nanomanipulator, the Goethe University in Frankfurt ...

Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany) ceremonially commissioned a state-of-the-art cryo plasma-FIB scanning electron microscope with nanomanipulator worth more than 5 million euros on Thursday. The ...

This study establishes a reliable methodology for verifying graphene's single-atom thickness, paving the way for its ...

Researchers develop reliable method using transmission electron microscopy to verify graphene's single-atom thickness, ...

Harvard researchers have found that silica, long thought to lack the right properties for optical metasurfaces, can sometimes ...

In a new study, we and an international team scientists examined the behavior of marine viruses in a large band of ...

Transmission electron microscopes are powerful—but expensive. This video shows how a clever workaround allows SEMs to capture transmission-style images. The result is a surprisingly detailed look at ...

Microscopy continues to transform the life sciences. Here are five recent breakthroughs made possible by the technique.

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