CORNING, NY — To closely inspect the evolution of the microscope, the Corning Museum of Glass is highlighting the lens-making behind the optical tool. Revealing the Invisible includes one of the few ...

The National Science Foundation has awarded $1.65 million to a project led by Washington University in St. Louis physicist Ken Kelton to build an electrostatic levitation chamber that will be ...

The humble glass microscope slide may be primed for a makeover. A study published online May 2 in the journal Nature Communications describes how an updated version of this centuries-old tool can now ...

For centuries, the field of pathology has been defined by a single instrument: the microscope. But according to William ...

The earliest example of a stereo microscope was designed and built-in 1671 by Cherubin d’Orleans, though it was a pseudostereoscopic design, which had major flaws. Only by application of additional ...

Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) images of Pd-Ni-P metallic glass at different temperatures show the phase transition that involves structural changes in atomic clusters. (Scale bars=5nm). The ...

THE year 1940 marked the centenary of the manufacture in Great Britain of specially thin glass for microscope cover-slips. Prior to this date, it was customary for microscopists to use thin talc or ...

MICROSCOPISTS will note with interest and appreciation the recently recorded centenary of the production by Messrs. Chance Brothers of thin glass for microscopic purposes 1.