Professor Chan Chi-hou, Acting President (from left), Professor Chen Fu-rong, Chair Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Director of the Time-Resolved Aberration-Corrected ...

This may look like Salvador Dali's Mae West Lips Sofa, but it is a colourised scanning electron microscope image of a diatom - a tiny single-celled marine creature invisible to the naked eye. Diatoms ...

Oxford Nanoimaging (ONI) has commenced sales of an elegant desktop optical microscope capable of zooming in on objects as tiny as structures inside living cells. This super-resolution microscope will ...

(1632-1723) and Englishman Robert Hooke (1635-1703). Both played instrumental roles in the identification of microorganisms using glass lenses and essentially launched the fields of optical microscopy ...

This gallery features extreme close-ups of popular foods. Everyday items were examined with a scanning electron microscope, revealing surprising details. This broccoli floret, for instance, looks like ...