Scientists use ultrafast laser to flip materials into a different electronic state

A burst of invisible light can do more than illuminate a surface. In a new study, Michigan State University researchers used ...
Interesting Engineering

US scientists’ ‘optical cavity’ work can help make million-qubit quantum computer network

Researchers describe an array of 40 cavities containing 40 individual atom qubits as well as a prototype with more than 500 ...

New microscopy technique preserves the cell's natural conditions

Researchers at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology) have developed an innovative microscopy ...
Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering

High-speed microscope gives instant look inside living tissue

Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers unveil Back-Illumination Tomography (BIT), a high-speed microscope that provides unprecedented, real-time views of living tissue to accelerate patient care and ...

A new type of microscope lets scientists observe life unfolding inside cells

A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.
Your Observer

Local creator of children's microscope works to make science more accessible

Since 1987, Sarasota's Dennis Brock has been producing the Brock Magiscope, which draws from ambient light and minimizes ...

Scientists demonstrate low-cost, high-quality lenses for super-resolution microscopy

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 ...
BioTechniques

Visualizing the invisible: 5 recent breakthroughs in microscopy

Microscopy continues to transform the life sciences. Here are five recent breakthroughs made possible by the technique.
AlphaGalileo

ERC Proof of Concept Grant for innovation in low-temperature microscopy

Junior-Professor Daqing Wang from the University of Bonn has received a Proof of Concept Grant from the European Research ...

Vital surgical equipment is on the way to Vernon's Jubilee Hospital, after successful Light a Bulb community campaign

Helped by an "extraordinary" wave of generosity across the North Okanagan, the Vernon Jubilee Hospital Foundation's 39th ...
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Researchers from the UJI Optics Group correct image aberrations in real time in single-pixel microscopy using a deformable lens

Researchers from the Optics Group at the Universitat Jaume I in Castellón have managed to correct in real time problems related to image aberrations in single-pixel microscopy using a recent ...