Ramona Optics, a Durham startup making advanced microscopes for universities and life sciences companies, has raised $25 million from investors in a Series A round. Why it matters: The funding will ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed an artificial intelligence ...

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You often learn to operate different types of microscopes in high school and college, but you may not think about how this skill will be useful in the future. However, there are many jobs in the ...

Manu Prakash, a bioengineer at Stanford University, has created a fully functional microscope out of waterproof paper that uses teeny-tiny lenses to magnify objects. He calls it a Foldscope. The ...

There are several different types of electron microscopes, including the transmission electron microscope (TEM), scanning electron microscope (SEM), and reflection electron microscope (REM.) Each of ...

The instrument, which operates near absolute zero for hours, will soon ship to a few labs. Researchers are thrilled.

Portable optical light microscopes are widely used tools in the field of microscopy. Found in laboratories both large and small, as well as schools and colleges, they are a simple and elegant solution ...

We can directly see the hidden world of atoms thanks to electron microscopes, first developed in the 1930s. Today, electron microscopes, which use beams of electrons to illuminate and magnify a sample ...

A specially designed micromechanical mirror array corrects optical distortions that occur when viewing biological tissue, making fine structures appear sharper.

A new microscope can be printed on a flat piece of paper and assembled with a few extra components in less than 10 minutes. All the parts to make it cost less than a dollar, according to Stanford ...