A new instrument makes available an innovative approach to fluorescence microscopy, opening up new possibilities for life ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A 23-year-old Olympia man who studied mechanical engineering at the University of Washington is finding a market for his invention — lenses that turn your cellphone into a ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have shown for the first time that expensive aberration-corrected microscopes are no longer required to achieve record-breaking ...

Gerd Binnig's creation of the scanning tunnelling microscope has been fundamental to nanoscience, influencing diverse ...

The invention that first enabled researchers to see clear images of living cells was the phase-contrast microscope, which won its inventor, Frits Zernike, a Nobel Prize in 1932. Prior to Zernike's ...