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New technology: An optical microscope without lenses

News: Scientific Instruments    April 26, 2011
Say ‘microscope’ and most people think of the models they had in school. Those microscopes had lenses and used visible light (either natural light or a bulb of some kind). Generically they’re called optical microscopes. So what’s a microscope called if it doesn’t have any lenses? Try lens-free optical tomographic microscope. And this means what? [...]
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Atomic motion pictures

News: Scientific Instruments    December 30, 2009
Often advances in science go hand-in-hand with advances in scientific instrumentation. The ability to capture atoms in motion, that is, images at the atomic level over a period of time, is a major advancement. The achievement required combining the power of a conventional three-dimensional electron microscope with the ability to capture the images in an [...]
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Milestone mobile brain microscope

News: Scientific Instruments    November 9, 2009
Better tools, better science: Being able to monitor the brain cells of an animal while it freely moves around and interacts with its environment, now that’s doing science the right way. No more tying the subject down inside a massive device and showing it pictures of changing scenery while scanning its brain. Well, actually there [...]
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Quantum gas microscope sees quirks

News: Scientific Instruments    November 7, 2009
Continuing the recent spate of announcements concerning new scientific instruments, researchers at Harvard University have developed a quantum gas microscope that can glimpse into the quantum mechanics world, for example the behavior of supercold rubidium atoms. The what, you say? Well, rubidium is one of the more esoteric elements (Rb – atomic number 37) that [...]
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