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Newly improved glass slide turns microscopes into thermometers
The humble glass microscope slide may be primed for a makeover. A study published online today (May 2, 2018) in the journal Nature...
May 8, 20182 min read


Why we need erasable MRI scans
Magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, is a widely used medical tool for taking pictures of the insides of our body. One way to make MRI...
May 4, 20183 min read


Stagediving with biomolecules improves optical microscopy
The resolution of conventional optical microscopy is limited bmicy the fundamental physical principle of diffraction to about one half of...
May 1, 20184 min read


Watching nanomaterials form in 4-D
When famed physicists Max Knoll and Ernst Ruska first introduced the transmission electron microscope (TEM) in 1933, it allowed...
Apr 27, 20183 min read


Individual impurity atoms detectable in graphene
A team including physicists from the University of Basel has succeeded in using atomic force microscopy to clearly obtain images of...
Apr 13, 20182 min read


Researchers develop spectroscopic thermometer for nanomaterials
A scientific team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has found a new way to take the local temperature of a...
Mar 21, 20184 min read
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