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 ...

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 ...

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Metalenses have been used to image microscopic features of tissue and resolve details smaller than a wavelength of light. Now, Harvard researchers have turned the metalens towards space. Researchers ...

Space is slowly revealing its secrets. The James Webb Space Telescope launched in 2021, beginning operations a few months later. Since then, it has revealed images of black holes and ultramassive ...

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 ...

WEST CHESTER — The Chester County History Center was the site, last week, of a major reunion between botanist and scientist Humphry Marshall’s telescope and microscope. The reunion of scientific ...

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