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This YouTube video shows just how easy it is to build a laser microscope in your own home, with which to conduct at least rudimentary scientific observations. The best part is that the instrument can be built for only a few dollars.
Its main component is a standard, presentation laser, of the type used in conferenc... |
10 November 2011
05:45 GMT |
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Leading semiconductor manufacturers and experts at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have recently joined forces to create a microscope capable of conducting photolithography, one of the most important aspects of creating microchips.
The purpose of this... |
29 October 2011
04:49 GMT |
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The standard Petri dish has been in use among scientists since the late 19th century, helping them monitor how bacteria grow, and also if people are infected with a certain pathogen or not. Now, a team of scientists in the United States create an advanced version of the tool, and named it ePetri.
The group, based... |
4 October 2011
14:01 GMT |
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Researchers at the Stanford University announce the development of a new type of portable microscope, which they say can be used either in the lab or on the field. The device fits neatly on a fingertip, and is constructed exclusively with existing technologies. What this means is that it could theoretically be mass-p... |
17 September 2011
07:02 GMT |
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Scientists in the United States announce the creation of a new type of microscope that can be used to create three-dimensional tomographic images of micro- and nanoscale samples. The entire system is at the same time small enough to fit into the user's palm.But the real kicker is that the instrument doesn't... |
22 April 2011
11:06 GMT |
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The crew of Expedition 26 aboard the International Space Station (ISS) began to use a new microscope this week. The instrument was designed to enable studies on the effects that microgravity has on the physics and biology of various samples. Making the tool operational enables the astronauts to conduct research aboar... |
7 March 2011
10:44 GMT |
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Scientists in Europe recently managed to perfect a new achievement in the field of microscopy, when they improved the functionality of a software program that enables microscopes to “learn” what their users are searching for in images.This allows for the machines to conduct studies autonomously, and pinpo... |
24 January 2011
06:23 GMT |
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A group of researchers from the University of Michigan in Ann Harbor (UM) announces the creation of a monitoring method for bacteria that eliminates the need for microscopes. Their technique relies on using a device made from components that are commercially available and cheap. In fact, the team says, their innovati... |
18 January 2011
03:30 GMT |
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Conducting science has become a lot easier since investigators learned to use instruments to aid their senses, and the microscope was undoubtedly one of the greatest inventions ever. Now, experts are seeking to innovate it.The work is being conducted by a team of researchers at the University of Freiburg Department o... |
12 October 2010
09:39 GMT |
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A team of experts at the Rice University has recently developed a smaller, more compact, battery-operated version of the large fluorescence microscope used in research laboratories. Their machine has the same capabilities as its larger counterparts, but can be deployed at any location its handlers want, and then pack... |
5 August 2010
04:30 GMT |
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German researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS, in Dresden, announce the development of a new tool that could be used to detect cancer in vivo. Generally, when doctors check for tumors or other signs of the disease, they collect a piece of tissue from an area of interest (the process is... |
4 June 2010
09:52 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking series of experiments, scientists in the United States managed to develop a new method of analyzing how graphene sheets are stacked on top of each other. Scientists with the collaboration say that the technique is also suitable for determining which areas of the compound are subjected to most stra... |
29 April 2010
06:32 GMT |
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At the micro- and nano-scales, a large number of events take place at any given time. Inside living cells the amount of reactions that take place, for example, is exceedingly large and complex, and science has been trying to keep up through new discoveries for many years. However, experts knew that they were limited ... |
1 March 2010
06:39 GMT |
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People usually take many things for granted, including the ability to always appear in motion in a static world. The human brain is able to receive constant updates from all its sensors – eyes, ears, skin, nose and so on – and then update our position in real-time. When this happens cursively, we understa... |
4 November 2009
04:41 GMT |
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Detecting extremely small molecules that have no fluorescence is very difficult to accomplish, especially if you don't know what you're looking for. Scientists at the Harvard University have recently managed to break this limitation, when a team led by expert X. Sunney Xie has created a new microscopic tech... |
23 October 2009
04:12 GMT |
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Over the years, electron microscopes have generated a wealth of knowledge on many small things, but experts have always resented the fact that the instruments cannot be used to image living samples. The beams of electrons this type of microscope uses to get the job done is very energetic, and can, at best, easily dis... |
7 October 2009
03:43 GMT |
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Bird species are widely known for their exquisite plumages, which are used to attract mates and show who is the boss within a group. For a long time, paleontologists and ornithologists wondered where this behavior originated, or exactly how old this “marketing mechanism” was. Recent analyses of fossilized... |
26 August 2009
10:50 GMT |
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Most people use the cameras on their cell phones to capture instant moments while out with their families, or to photograph fun times with their pets. But experts from the University of California, in Berkeley, have other plans with their mobile phones. Their newly developed technology, CellScope, allows for average ... |
22 July 2009
05:39 GMT |
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Undoubtedly, in future medical therapies, synthetic nanoparticles will play an essential role. Already, developments in technology allow for these materials to be used as carriers for drug and vaccine molecules, and further advancements will see them being employed more often in hospitals around the world. One of the... |
20 July 2009
08:40 GMT |
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Many of the potential advantages and applications of nanotechnology are, in some way or the other, related to the fact that they can act inside places regular-sized molecules cannot reach. But that action is entirely dependent on the ability of nanoparticles to self-assemble or self-combine into larger, more efficien... |
9 July 2009
05:32 GMT |
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Measuring the electric charge on single atoms is not something that hasn't been done before, but now researchers from IBM's Zürich research laboratory have improved on their previous work, and shown that atomic force microscopes (AFM) can successfully replace scanning tunneling microscopes (STM) in doi... |
15 June 2009
03:01 GMT |
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The fluorescence microscope (FM) has been the instrument of a whole generation of scientists over the last years, allowing the researchers to peer at things as small as proteins, moving live inside their containing cells. But, as technology evolved, humans started constructing various structures on the nanoscale, whi... |
5 May 2009
06:40 GMT |
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Human teeth have such a remarkable strength, that dentists never cease to be amazed at how even a tooth covered in cracks can still hold together, without breaking apart. They know that the enamel, which constitutes the outer layer of the teeth, is a very strong, yet brittle material, and so they couldn't explai... |
14 April 2009
06:15 GMT |
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One of the grandest challenges in neuroscience is the development of a scientific technique that is able to basically create a map of the entire brain, of neurons and their interactions, as well as of the areas of the cortex, each with its specific function. The technique known as transmission electron microscope (TE... |
31 March 2009
04:41 GMT |
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Using an atomic force microscope to detect all the subtle changes that occur within a material when it's pulled apart or compressed is a very good method of scientific observation. Unfortunately, it's also one of the most expensive, so researchers at the University of Illinois have only recently devised a n... |
30 March 2009
05:45 GMT |
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The fullerenes, discovered in 1985 by researchers at Rice University, are a family of carbon allotropes named after Richard Buckminster Fuller and are sometimes called bucky balls. They are molecules composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow sphere or ellipsoid.A carbon nanotube is a one-atom thick sheet ... |
2 April 2007
02:51 GMT |
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