Human history is marked by pivotal moments where our perception of the world and even ourselves underwent profound transformations. Two such moments were the advent of the telescope and the microscope ...

I remember a moment in my young life when I realized that the perceptible world was not all that there was in the universe. Two other worlds existed that were invisible in the course of a daily life.

Neuroscientists have developed innovative objectives for light microscopy by using mirrors to produce images. Their design finds correspondence in mirror telescopes used in astronomy on the one hand ...

In 1994, a comet collided with Jupiter. But, even before that fatal collision, the comet was exceptional for something else: the tool that had first discovered it a year earlier. io9’s comment of the ...

RACINE - Racine Unified sixth- and eighth-grade science classrooms are getting new microscopes and telescope kits thanks to donations from area businesses. The microscopes and telescope kits will fill ...

QIScope: When imaging low protein levels in live cells on the high-sensitivity QIScope, bioluminescence (blue) significantly outperforms fluorescence (green). (Courtesy: Ruyu Ma - Helmholtz Munich) A ...

Classic design: the Schmidt objective produces detailed images of neurons in a mouse brain. (Courtesy: Anna Maria Reuss (USZ) & Fabian Voigt (UZH)) Researchers in Switzerland have built what they ...

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