The Nikon Small World Competition celebrates its 50th year in 2024 with more than 2,100 entries submitted from 80 countries.

When you’ve got a scanning electron microscope sitting around ... is upping his SEM game with a new rig to improve image capture (video link) and more easily create animated GIFs and videos.

From spines on neurons to pollen on an insect’s eye, the winners of Nikon’s Small World photo contest offer a kaleidoscopic glimpse into a tiny world.

Following is a transcript of the video. This isn’t some alien planet It’s cannabis! These images were taken with a scanning electron ... Marijuana Under the Microscope” is a book by Ted ...

For the first time, LBL researchers have captured direct images of the Wigner molecular crystal using scanning tunneling ...

Until now. Two laboratories recently used cryo-electron microscopy to directly image atoms in a protein molecule with a resolution of about 1.2 x 10-7 millimeters or 1.2 ångströms. The previous ...

Electrons typically travel at high speeds, zipping through matter unbound. In the 1930s, physicist Eugene Wigner predicted ...

The extra spatial information provided by the detector arrays enables a super-resolution technique known as image scanning ...

Scanning Electron Microscopy ... and preservation under these conditions. The samples analyzed by SEM must be electrically conductive. Non-conductive specimens can accumulate charge from the electron ...

A groundbreaking image of mouse brain tumor cells took ... interacted.This took about three hours of precise observation under the microscope to capture the right moment, involving many attempts ...