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Within a modest engineering laboratory at Duke University, a new type of researcher is quietly at work next to an optical ...

LifeCanvas Technologies launches DALISPIM, an open-top light sheet microscope that opens new avenues for 3D bioimaging and high-throughput screening.

Zhang You of the Entomological Society of China took first place with an image of a rice weevil—an agricultural pest—on a ...

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Nonlinear optical dynamics—intensity-dependent response of light upon interaction with materials under high-intensity light ...

EPFL researchers have developed a method to calibrate electron spectrometers with extreme accuracy by linking microwave, ...

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Using a tiny, spherical glass lens sandwiched between two brass plates, the 17th-century Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first to officially describe red blood cells and sperm cells ...