Each year, more than 200 million people fall sick with malaria and more than half a million of these infections lead to death. The World Health Organization recommends parasite-based diagnosis before ...

A team led by Raju Tomer, professor of biological sciences at Columbia University, has created a new design for microscopes ...

Thanks to one parent’s generosity, students at a nearby high school had a rare chance to work with a $85,000 scanning electron microscope, which is at least 30 times more powerful than any microscope ...

Researchers have developed a new type of microscope that can acquire extremely large, high-resolution pictures of non-flat objects in a single snapshot. This innovation could speed up research and ...

In a study published in Science Advances, a research team led by Prof. Liu Chengbo from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed a 1.7-gram ...

A new microscope at the University of Minnesota Duluth is playing a major part in mesothelioma research. The $400,000 scanning electron microscope, acquired by the university this summer through a ...

Microscopes have long been a part of any self-respecting science lab or chemistry classroom, but they’re now much easier to get a hold of for use at home – either for education or for, well, discovery ...

North Dakota State University has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's Major Research Instrumentation Program, funded under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act ...