microscopes
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Turns Out You Can Turn Old Blu-Ray Players into Microscopes
Optical microscopes typically max out at anywhere between 500x to 1,500x magnification, at which point you need to switch to a scanning microscope to zoom any closer. They come with some functional compromises, and they’re not cheap, often costing tens of thousands of dollars, unless you’re clever enough to repurpose the optics in an old…
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What Viral Shedding Looks Like During A Covid-19 Infection
You’ve probably heard the term viral shedding at some point during the covid-19 pandemic. Here’s what it actually looks like and what it means.
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You Won’t Be Able To See Or Hear This 36-Hour Nano-Scale Endurance Race
One month from today, a record-setting race will be held in Toulouse, France. Teams from around the world will race nano-scale vehicles built from less than 100 individual atoms, at blistering speeds of up to five nanometres per hour. To put that in perspective, it would take these microscopic cars almost 23 years to travel…
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These Are The First Colour Images Ever Produced By An Electron Microscope
Electron microscopes are renowned for their ability to peer down into the hidden world of the very small. The trouble is, these tools only produce images in black and white. A new technique that took 15 years to develop finally overcomes this optical limitation, producing the first ever multicolour electron microscope images.