Microscopes have long been scientists’ eyes into the unseen, revealing everything from bustling cells to viruses and nanoscale structures. However, even the most powerful optical microscopes have been ...

Existing methods for detecting and diagnosing COVID-19 are either expensive and complex or inaccurate. Now, scientists have developed a novel biosensing platform to detect and quantify viral particles ...

Lithium-ion batteries power our phones, cars, and even homes; ensuring their safe and efficient behavior has become incredibly important. Using a simple optical technique, Purdue University ...

This difference map shows the optical properties of lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide particles in a coin-cell battery (brighter particles indicate a higher charged state). By capturing this ...

Assessing how resistant different bacteria are to antibiotic treatments is a vital current challenge in public healthcare, as instances of antibiotic resistance continue to grow. Optical techniques ...

My son is obsessed with anything science-related, and now he wants to see cells (and other microscopic things). He's only 5, so holding his eye still over a simple optical microscope isn't going to ...

This article discusses how optical microscopy is used in analyzing, visualizing and imaging nanomaterials as well as its limitations and recent studies related to optical microscopy utilization in ...

When trying to measure molecular structures with nanometer precision, every bit of noise shows up in the data: someone walking past the microscope, tiny vibrations in the building and even the traffic ...