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The first major benefit of confocal microscopes is the level of detail which can be achieved. With an already impressive horizontal resolution of 0.2 microns and vertical resolution of 0.5 confocal ...

Scientists and engineers build the transistors that run televisions, radios and similar electronic devices based on the moving electric charges of electrons. But the electron also has another key ...

When I was younger, I spent a lot of time collecting things around the house and using a microscope to examine them. While I had a lot of fun examining things, the one thing that was lacking was the ...

What’s a budding scientist to do when he/she can’t gain practice doing science in an actual lab? Why, take advantage of virtual labs, of course! The Virtual Labs: Using a Microscope app is one of a ...

A new Nikon AXR Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope purchased by the CWRU Center for Excellence on the Impact of Substance Use on HIV, led by Alan Levine, PhD, is available for use by trained faculty.

For Yuksel Temiz, photographing extremely tiny subjects is just part of his job as a microelectronics engineer at IBM’s Zurich Research Laboratory. Temiz works on minuscule devices that use ...

The history of who invented chocolate and how it's made is as interesting as the food is delicious. Mayans and Aztecs used cacao beans as a form of currency and even offered the beans to their gods.

ATHENS, Ohio – Scientists and engineers build the transistors that run televisions, radios and similar electronic devices based on the moving electric charges of electrons. But the electron also has ...