How can your houseplant survive up to a month and a half without watering?
Hungarian researchers at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University and the HUN-REN Center for Energy Research have shown that the leaves ...
Microwaving your coffee changes it, and other lessons learned (while sipping espresso) in MIT’s coffee class
Professor Jeffrey Grossman is on a mission to get students to think critically about materials they interact with every day.
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Electron Microscopy
By scanning the sample and collecting the secondary electrons at different sample points using a special detector a raster image displaying the topography of the surface is created. Transmission ...
Nature23d
‘Expansion microscopy’ turns ten: how a tissue-swelling method brought super-resolution imaging to the masses
ExM enlarges tissues ‘isotropically’, that is, uniformly in all directions, much as an image on an inflated ... nobody has an electron microscope,” Aniweh says. “Expansion is the best ...
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Researchers develop an improved method to image liquids under a microscope
Liquid Cell Transmission Electron Microscopy (LCTEM) is a type of microscope that lets scientists see how materials behave in liquid form. LCTEM uses special tools called ... These electron beams help ...
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KAIST Develops Neuromorphic Semiconductor Chip that Learns and Corrects Itself
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a computing chip equipped with a highly reliable selector-less 32×32 memristor crossbar array (left). Hardware system developed for real-time artificial ...
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Using ion beams to improve brain microscopy
To see the smallest parts of cells, scientists often use a technique called electron microscopy ... tomography (cryo-ET), provides clearer images of the brain's smallest parts in a more native ...
Lurking Inside an Asteroid: Life’s Ingredients
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...
Nature14d
Eyes on super-resolution
I prefer to call these methods by the general term 'single-molecule active control microscopy', or SMACM. All of these techniques require the ability to image ... freezing (as electron or X ...
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Tiny crystals capture millions of years of mountain range history: Geologist excavates the Himalayas with a microscope
Minerals containing radioactive elements are of special interest because these ... We nicknamed it "Monzilla." Using an electron probe microanalyzer, we collected and visualized data on the ...
Nanowerk5d
A look into the dark
For the first time, the formation of tiny, difficult-to-detect particles - known as dark excitons - can be tracked precisely ...
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Harnessing nature to defend soybean roots
Howard Berg and his team have developed a way to genetically equip soybean plants with this special ... of-the-art electron microscopy and imaging equipment, the team captured images of the ...