News tagged with microscope image

Scientists Image the 'Anatomy' of a Molecule (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, IBM researchers in Zurich, Switzerland, have taken a 3D image of an individual molecule. Using an atomic force microscope, the researchers constructed a "force map" of ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (46) | comments 4 weblog

Physicists develop 3D metamaterial nanolens that achieves super-resolution imaging

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team from Northeastern University has developed a new nanolens that can beat the diffraction limit to achieve so-called super-resolution imaging, better than can be achieved by current technology. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 18, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (24) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Engineer invents world's smallest, lightest telemedicine microscope

Aydogan Ozcan, whose invention of a novel lensless imaging technology for use in telemedicine could radically transform global health care, has now taken his work a step further -- or tinier: The UCLA engineer ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 22, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (21) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Optical microscope without lenses produces high-resolution 3-D images on a chip

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA researchers have redefined the concept of a microscope by removing the lens to create a system that is small enough to fit in the palm of a hand but powerful enough to create three-dimensional ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 22, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

To peer inside a living cell

(PhysOrg.com) -- Quantum mechanics could help build ultra-high-resolution electron microscopes that won't destroy living cells, according to MIT electrical engineers.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 3

New microscope captures nanoscale structures in dazzling 3D

(Phys.org) -- A new x-ray microscope probes the inner intricacies of materials smaller than human cells and creates unparalleled high-resolution 3D images. By integrating unique automatic calibrations, scientists ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Imaging technology reveals intricate details of 49 million-year-old spider

Scientists have used the latest computer-imaging technology to produce stunning three-dimensional pictures of a 49 million-year-old spider trapped inside an opaque piece of fossilized amber resin.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 18, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Novel metamaterial vastly improves quality of ultrasound imaging

(PhysOrg.com) -- New "metamaterials" can overcome some of the limitations of microscopes and imagers, including ultrasound imagers. Researchers in the Nano-scale Science & Engineering Center have come up with ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

One way sound: A new material will allow for improved ultrasound imaging

Most roads allow cars to flow in both directions. However, in some circumstances, such as congested city streets, it makes sense to limit traffic to one direction only. With electricity it is also useful to ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 19, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists Use Squid Ink to Draw its Jurassic Period Owner

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists digging in Trowbridge, Wiltshire in England have uncovered the fossilized remains of a prehistoric squid-like creature that lived in the Jurassic period around 150 million years ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0 weblog

Seeing Previously Invisible Molecules for the First Time

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Harvard chemists led by X. Sunney Xie has developed a new microscopic technique for seeing, in color, molecules with undetectable fluorescence. The room-temperature technique allows ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Rapid, high-definition chemistry with new imaging technique

With intensity a million times brighter than sunlight, a new synchrotron-based imaging technique offers high-resolution pictures of the molecular composition of tissues with unprecedented speed and quality. ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Terahertz pulse increases electron density 1,000-fold

Researchers at Kyoto University have announced a breakthrough with broad implications for semiconductor-based devices. The findings, announced in the December 20 issue of the journal Nature Communications, may le ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 4

First high-resolution images of bone, tooth and shell formation

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) have for the first time made high-resolution images of the earliest stages of bone formation. They used the world's most advanced electron ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers turn cell phones into fluorescent microscopes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are proving that a camera phone can capture far more than photos of people or pets at play. They have now developed a cell phone microscope, ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1