MicroScope started life in Rathbone Place in London, launched by Sportscene Specialist Press in 1982, with the first issue published on 23 September 1982. The concept of the publication was to inform ...

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 ...

On August 10, 1982, IBM won US patent 4,343,993 for the invention of the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM), the first microscope that allowed researchers to “see” at the atomic scale. The invention ...

According to conventional wisdom, the compound microscope was invented at the beginning of the seventeenth century and made possible the immediate discovery of cells. This is nonsense. The textbook ...

MAY I add a note to the brief statement referring to the Crisp collection of microscopes in NATURE of February 14, p. 241? Doubtless it is true that on occasion the late Sir Frank Crisp may have led ...

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

In 1972, the Rosenstiel Center and the three science departments hired Susan Lowey (Biochemistry), Carolyn Cohen (Biology), and Donald Caspar (Physics). During the moving in, Caspar coined the term ...

Learn about how Mark Raizen and his team at UT Austin have developed the world's highest resolution atom lens. An atom lens is analogous to a glass lens used in an optical microscope or magnifying ...

Since the development of the transmission electron microscope (TEM), scientists have sought ways to improve spatial resolution. With the design of the aberration-correcting lens systems for scanning ...

Scientists have observed atomic magnetic fields, the origin of magnetic forces, for the first time using an innovative Magnetic-field-free Atomic-Resolution STEM they developed. The joint development ...

The observation was conducted using the newly developed Magnetic-field-free Atomic-Resolution STEM (MARS) (1). This team had already succeeded in observing the electric field inside atoms for the ...