Atomic-scale detail is now possible with photons, thanks to a cooled-down silver tip and a clever use of plasmonics.

Scientists use scanning tunneling microscopy to understand how a material's electronic or magnetic properties relate to its ...

Three winners were chosen, for photographic projects which showcase “the impact of science and health on lives around the ...

The diatom test is considered as the most reliable scientific method in solving the drowning cases. However, the detection and identification of diatoms have to be accomplished manually with the ...

An attosecond—or 0.000000000000000001 second—is no time at all for a person. That is not so for electrons, atoms and molecules, and laser-wielding scientists are revealing the action ...

Electron microscopes are some of the most powerful tools in science, allowing us to capture images at a scale so tiny that we can observe individual atoms! Unlike traditional light microscopes ...

New electron microscopy technique enables precise atomic number mapping, revealing nanoscale hydrogen storage and defect dynamics in palladium.

The term suggests a device for scanning broccoli, but it is utter nonsense. There are scanning electron microscopes and tunnelling electron microscopes, but not vegetative electron microscopes.

Using a STEM-in-SEM conversion holder, we can convert a scanning electron microscope into a scanning transmission microscope. Neat!

DIATOMACEOUS earth, as mined in Lompoc, California, and other sites in the south-west United States, is made up of the siliceous skeletons of diatoms which lived in the Miocene and Pliocene ...

Diatoms (blue/white/yellow) frozen on an electron microscopy grid (copper) during a sample preparation step for cryo-electron tomography. Credit: Benoit Gallet and Martin Oeggerli, Micronaut.

Diatoms (blue/white/yellow) frozen on an electron microscopy grid (copper) during a sample preparation step for cryo-electron tomography. Diatoms are too small to see with the naked eye, yet they ...