Coloring structures inside our cells can help scientists track the effects of drugs, observe how cellular biomechanics play out, trace complex metabolic pathways and more. Till now, there have been ...

Electron microscopes are renowned for their ability to peer down into the hidden world of the very small. Trouble is, these tools only produce images in black and white. A new technique that took 15 ...

A few months ago, we took a look at the CellScope, a tool that turns camera-enabled cell phones and netbooks into handheld microscopes that can diagnose diseases like malaria and tuberculosis. When we ...

A new type of scanning transmission electron microscope is enabling scientists for the first time to form images that uniquely identify individual atoms and see how those atoms bond to one another.

The technique is sort of a combination of light microscopy, which bounces light off of objects, and electron microscopy, which bounces electrons off of objects. UC, San Diego Bringing color to ...

Many baby boomers still remember the excitement of watching color television for the first time. The colors were not exactly life-like, but the sky was blue, the grass was green, and you could tell ...

A French and Japanese research group has developed a new way of visualizing the atomic world by turning data scanned by an atomic force microscope into clear color images. The newly developed method, ...

Scientists using a new technique have managed to produce the first color images with an electron microscope. Their results are published in a paper in the journal Cell Chemical Biology. Electron ...

When you place a slice of quartz crystal—thinner than a human hair—under a microscope, it suddenly stops looking ordinary.