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  • SkyLight pushes combo smartphone-microscope mount

    SmartPlanet visits SkyLight co-founders Andy Miller and Tess Bakke to get a hands-on with the device.

    Blog posts | March 27, 2012 1:17am PDT

  • Microscope makeover (photos)

    The iPhone microscope can, with its built-in camera, capture hi-def medical images.

  • Olympus BioScapes: Art that lives under the microscope (photos)

    The camera company's annual digital-imaging competition uncovers the science-as-art coming out of research laboratories across the globe. Winners were announced this week.

  • Google Sky Map: Coolest app ever

    Seriously, Google Sky Map made reminded me why, despite ongoing economic, environmental, and political messes worldwide, it's a very cool thing to be living in the 21st century. Let me take a...

    Blog posts | May 3, 2010 9:50pm PDT

  • SmartPlanet: Turning a cell phone into a microscope

    Graduate students in the bioengineering lab at UC Berkeley have discovered a way to turn an ordinary cellphone in a microscope. The Cellscope can capture, organize and transmit images of blood...

    Blog posts | December 21, 2009 2:15am PST

  • World's smallest 'snowman' measures 1/5th the width of a human hair

    Utilizing laboratory tools designed for manipulating nano-particles, a scientist at the National Physical Laboratory in West London has created a miniature snowman that measures just 0.01 mm...

    Blog posts | December 7, 2009 11:01pm PST

  • Review: Brando's 200x USB Microscope

    If you're looking for a USB microscope that works with Mac OS X on the cheap, look no further. The Brando 8 USB Digital Microscope (PN: ULIFE022500) features a 1.3MP image sensor, 10 to 200x...

    Blog posts | April 15, 2009 7:00am PDT

  • Watching brain cells in action

    A Stanford University team has developed a microscope weighing only 1.1 grams. It is so small that it can be mounted to the head of a freely moving mouse to watch its brain cell activity....

    Blog posts | October 8, 2008 10:18am PDT

  • A microscope measuring picometers

    A few months ago, I've written about the most powerful microscope in the world which was able to display images at an incredible high-resolution of just 0.05 nanometer (or 50 picometers). It seems...

    Blog posts | July 28, 2008 9:23am PDT

  • A super-resolution x-ray microscope

    Swiss researchers have developed a very-high-resolution x-ray microscope. Their approach combines two well-known microscopy techniques, coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) and scanning transmission...

    Blog posts | July 18, 2008 10:06am PDT

  • Nanoscale microscope on a chip

    New Scientist recently reported that a UK company is developing a microscope on a chip four times more powerful than the best scanning electron microscopes (SEMs) available today. The best SEMs...

    Blog posts | June 16, 2008 9:29am PDT

  • A microscope that emails medical images

    A team of Chinese and U.S. researchers has successfully applied for a patent for a virtual telemicroscope. It is the only one of its kind capable of emailing electronic slides. It has been...

    Blog posts | March 28, 2008 10:28am PDT

  • 3-D images of a virus at half-nanometer resolution

    U.S. researchers have used a new technique named cryo-EM (short for 'Electron cryomicroscopy) to capture images of a virus at a resolution of 4.5 angstroms -- less than half of a nanometer. As...

    Blog posts | March 6, 2008 9:45am PST

  • Taking images of individual atoms in color

    Researchers at Cornell University are using a new kind of scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) to take pictures of individual atoms in color for the first time. It seems odd, but 'the...

    Blog posts | February 22, 2008 10:36am PST

  • Managing research instruments on the Web

    Telescopes, supercomputers or microscopes can cost millions of dollars. The research institutions which bought them often try to share the costs with other laboratories. And they're also tempted...

    Blog posts | October 11, 2007 8:55am PDT

  • The most powerful microscope in the world

    A new microscope developed by the TEAM Project (Transmission Electron Aberration-corrected Microscope), supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, has recorded the highest-resolution images ever...

    Blog posts | September 14, 2007 10:42am PDT

  • Photos: Inside IBM's Zurich research lab

    Now turning 50, the lab has produced Nobel Prize-winning technical breakthroughs, including the scanning tunneling microscope.

  • Photos: Inside IBM's Zurich research lab

    Now turning 50, the lab has produced Nobel Prize-winning technical breakthroughs, including the scanning tunneling microscope.

  • Nanotech under a microscope

    Stanford University scientists use the teensy technology to remove the membrane of a 1945 Mercury dime. See the full story at news.com

    Videos | February 9, 2005 12:47am PST

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