These colourful pictures of alcoholic drinks under a microscope reveal the molecules that make up our favourite tipples. Credit: Barcroft USA Just like images of snowflakes, each drink is different - ...

A microscope built in the UK is the first in the world to produce 3-D internal pictures of objects. This microscope combines two techniques, X-ray microtomography -- which produces 3-D images from a ...

Stunning microscope images released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveal the new killer coronavirus in unprecedented detail. Shown as blue dots, the virus, now dubbed ...

They look a bit like psychedelic purple space mushrooms – the sort of thing you might see painted on‘Take me to your dealer’-style student posters. That’s oddly appropriate – as the tiny purple sacs ...

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US scientists have released the first images of the new coronavirus that's spread to more than 70,000 people worldwide and killed more than 1,700. Scientists at the National Institute of Health (NIH) ...

There's a limit to what you can learn about cells from 2D pictures, but creating 3D images is a time-intensive process. Now, scientists from UT Southwestern have developed a new "simple and ...

Turn the coarse focus so that the stage is as close to the objective lens as possible. You should not look through the microscope to do this. Place the microscope slide – either one you have prepared, ...

Researchers have developed a deep learning algorithm for removing systematic effects from atomic force microscopy images, enabling more precise profiles of material surfaces. Atomic force microscopy, ...

To use a light microscope to examine animal or plant cells. To make observations and draw scale diagrams of cells. Turn the coarse focus so that the stage is as close to the objective lens as possible ...