Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists have developed a custom microscope to image microbes in soil and plants at the micrometer scale. Live imaging of microbes in soil would help ...

Optical microscopes used to be bulky instruments. The lenses and lights normally needed to illuminate, magnify and focus an image take up a lot of space, and are fragile and expensive to boot. Not any ...

Usually, catalytic reactions are analyzed by checking which chemicals go into a chemical reactor and which come out. But as it turns out, in order to properly understand and optimize catalysts, much ...

Place a stage micrometer on the microscope stage, and using the lowest magnification (4X), focus on the grid of the stage micrometer. Rotate the ocular micrometer by turning the appropriate eyepiece.

Schematic of the transmission mode microsphere superlens integrated with a classical optical microscope. The spheres collect the near-field object information and form virtual images that can be ...

OPTICAL microscopes used to be bulky instruments. Their basic components – lenses to magnify and focus an image – take up a lot of space, and are fragile and expensive to boot. Not any more.

Corals have been filmed moving around underwater at an unprecedented level of detail. Film taken with a newly developed underwater microscope has allowed scientists to look at these tiny organisms at ...