Researchers have shown that consumer-grade 3D printers and low-cost materials can be used to produce multi-element optical components that enable super-resolution imaging, with each lens costing less ...

Today, Holz is an electron microscopy research fellow at Boston University in neuroscientist Helen Barbas’s group. While she spends her weekdays capturing images for scientific research, her weekends ...

A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair. Instead of choosing between seeing big structures or tiny particles, researchers ...

In a cramped, windowless room on the University of California, Berkeley, campus, two bespoke microscopes—each a Swiss Army knife for high-resolution imaging—operate around the clock gathering data ...

A chemistry student has won a photo award for a striking image revealing a world most never see: the beauty of scientific ...