Microscopy has advanced significantly over the centuries, but modern tools still face trade-offs. Quantitative phase ...

Reflected light microscopy images, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy elemental maps, and scanning electron microscope images of Horodyskia moniliformis from the Tonian Shiwangzhuang Formation. News ...

SEVERAL very ingenious methods for facilitating the microscopic examination of the structure of plant fossils have been recently described and illustrated in NATURE. No mention, so far as I have noted ...

Brightfield microscopy has been widely used for hundreds of years, while reflection contrast microscopy is relatively new technology. As one of the earliest and simplest microscopy techniques, ...

The high sensitivity of the reflection electron microscopy (REM) technique to small changes in the crystal structure and composition of the top surface layers of various crystalline materials makes it ...

A new holographic microscope allows scientists to see through the skull and image the brain. The new label-free deep-tissue imaging with the wave correction algorithm retrieves the fine neural network ...

White light interferometry (WLI) is a contact-free optical method for measuring surface height. It uses the phase difference between the light reflected off a reference mirror and the target sample to ...

The unusual outer shell of a South American beetle, which can control both the polarization and wavelength of reflected light, could lead to a new breed of tunable micromirrors. A South American ...