New methods to improve super-resolution imaging techniques give a sharper view inside cells
New methods to improve super-resolution imaging techniques are giving biologists a clearer and more complete view of the inner workings of living cells.
New methods to improve super-resolution imaging techniques are giving biologists a clearer and more complete view of the inner workings of living cells.
Cell & Microbiology
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Scientists have developed artificial intelligence techniques to track the development of crevasses—or fractures—on the Thwaites Glacier Ice Tongue in west Antarctica.
Earth Sciences
Jan 9, 2023
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To observe living cells through a microscope, a sample is usually squeezed onto a glass slide. It then lies there calmly and the cells are observable. The disadvantage is that this limits how the cells behave and it only ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 22, 2022
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Cell organelles are involved in a variety of cellular life activities. Their dysfunction is closely related to the development and metastasis of cancer. Exploration of subcellular structures and their abnormal states facilitates ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 3, 2022
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Engineers at MIT and the University of Tokyo have produced centimeter-scale structures, large enough for the eye to see, that are packed with hundreds of billions of hollow aligned fibers, or nanotubes, made from hexagonal ...
Nanophysics
Oct 31, 2022
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The safety glass used in the windshields of limousines and military vehicles needs to be hard, strong and shatter-proof, but also thin—both for visibility and to reduce its weight, a particularly important feature for aerospace ...
Nanophysics
Mar 31, 2022
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Imaging technologies are key to modern medicine and diagnosis at an early stage, potentially improving patient outcomes. Microscopic imaging allows researchers and professionals to look directly into cells, making it possible ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 22, 2022
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While making materials samples to pursue their own research goals, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory discovered that an unwanted byproduct of their experiments was an extremely high-quality and ...
Superconductivity
Aug 26, 2021
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Properties of materials are often defined by imperfections in their atomic structure, especially when the material itself is just one atom thick, such as graphene. Researchers at the University of Vienna have now developed ...
Nanophysics
Jun 18, 2021
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Electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego developed a technology that improves the resolution of an ordinary light microscope so that it can be used to directly observe finer structures and details in ...
General Physics
Jun 1, 2021
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