The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to a trio of researchers for improving the resolution of optical microscopes. Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell and William Moerner used fluorescence to ...

Scientists have developed a new microscope which enables a dramatically improved view of biological cells. The researchers at the University of St Andrews have found a way to see far more detail ...

Unlike traditional microscopes, which use light, the new approach uses DNA 'bar codes' to label each molecule in the cell. From readings of the complex interactions of these labels with the molecules ...

You work with electron microscopes – how do they differ from the light microscopes that people might be more familiar with? Light microscopes allow us to see small things like the insides of cells in ...

Light microscopy is used to make small structures and samples visible by providing a magnified image of how they interact with visible light, e.g., their absorption, reflection and scattering. This is ...

Microscopes have existed for over 350 years but the latest development would not be recognisable to the pioneers of studying the smallest scales. A team from Rice University in Houston, Texas, which ...

We can see objects as small as 0.1 millimeters, and that means we can just about see these lice eggs in our hair and tiny single-celled organisms like amoeba. But it's possible to see things much ...