Mar 08
The light microscope changed science and medicine forever
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Mar 04
The microscope is a staple of the scientific community, allowing researchers to study what’s too small to be seen by the naked eye. But how exactly did it rise to such notoriety?
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Jan 21
Sometimes, you never knew you wanted something until someone drops it in your lap. That’s exactly what Bodelin Technologies has done with their smartphone-powered ProScope Micro Mobile microscope. This genius little thing now works underwater.
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Oct 30
Nikon just announced the winners for its 2013 Small World Photomicrography Competition. It’s basically a collection of the best images of things you can only see under a light microscope. Or better yet, it’s the best photographs of things you can’t actually see. Here are some fantastically creepy shots that were our favorites.
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Oct 16
Yeasayer: Glass of the Microscope
Posted in: Today's ChiliThere’s an unknown pandemic threatening mankind. Our only hope lies in Yeasayer’s laboratory-grade emulsion of science and synthesizer psychedelia. Dystopia never sounded so good.
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Aug 13
Wow. This is incredible. Captured by high-definition microscopy, the footage shows the buzzing world and slimy life inside a single drop of pond water. It’s completely alien, it’s unnerving and it makes your stomach turn itself inside out. There are brown flatworms, Medusa looking nematodes, starfish-like hydras ‘defecating’ and more oozy organisms.
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Jul 30
Microscopes are a dime a dozen in universities, so there’s plenty of fun to be had hacking ’em any way you can—like a team of researchers from Caltech, who have developed a cheap and easy way to increase their resolution by a factor of 100.
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Jun 20
Your average atom is about 62 to 520 picometers in diameter, but since that’s a full factor smaller than the 390 to 700 nanometers human eye can perceive, direct observation using conventional microscopes is physically impossible. But that’s where the electron beams come in. The University of Victoria has just installed the most powerful scanning electron microscope in history.
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Mar 27
Optical microscopes are limited by a phenomenon known as the diffraction barrier, wherein the microscope can’t differentiate two objects separated by less than half the wavelength of light used—roughly 200 nm on average for the visible spectrum. But by combining powerful optics and cutting-edge rendering algorithms, GE’s new DeltaVision OMX Blaze is bringing this hidden realm’s drama to light. More »
Oct 23
In 1665, Samuel Pepys recalls in his diary that he stayed up till 2am one morning, reading a best-selling page-turner which he called “the most ingenious book I read in my life.” It wasn’t a book about history, or a play, or anything from the arts: it was the world’s first popular book about microscopic images. More »
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