In order to examine tissues under the microscope, they usually have to be cut into thin slices. But it is impossible to analyze whole tissues or living organisms in this way. However, this is exactly what two Mexican research ...
Biotechnology
Mar 15, 2022
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Understanding the nitty gritty of how molecules interact with each other in the real, messy, dynamic environment of a living body is a challenge that must be overcome in order to understand a host of diseases, such as Alzheimer's.
General Physics
Feb 17, 2022
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Scientists from Durham University's Chemistry Department have developed the world's first laser scanning confocal microscope that can harness Circularly Polarized Light (CPL) to differentiate left and right-handed molecules, ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 1, 2022
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Scientists in Switzerland and Germany have achieved efficient electron-beam modulation using integrated photonics—circuits that guide light on a chip. The experiments could lead to entirely new quantum measurement schemes ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 22, 2021
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Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have succeeded in creating tiny vehicles powered by nothing but light. By layering an optical metasurface onto a microscopic particle, and then using a light source ...
Nanophysics
Sep 28, 2021
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Physicists and engineers have found a way to identify and address imperfections in materials for one of the most promising technologies in commercial quantum computing.
Quantum Physics
Sep 1, 2021
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What if a microscope allowed us to explore the 3D microcosm of blood vessels, nerves, and cancer cells instantaneously in virtual reality? What if it could provide views from multiple directions in real time without physically ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 29, 2021
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Conventional microscopes provide essential information about samples in two dimensions—the plane of the microscope slide. But flat is not all that. In many instances, information about the object in the third dimension—the ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 24, 2021
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A team of physicists from the University of Konstanz and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany have achieved attosecond time resolution in a transmission electron microscope by combining it with a continuous-wave ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 11, 2020
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Scientists have developed a new technique using tools made of luminescent DNA, lit up like fireflies, to visualize the mechanical forces of cells at the molecular level. Nature Methods published the work, led by chemists ...
Biochemistry
Sep 22, 2020
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