A complete, ready-to-teach GCSE Biology lesson focused on using light microscopes to observe cells, with links to the GCSE Required Practical on using a light microscope to observe and draw plant and ...

Scientists have found a way to map the intricate patterns of cells in mouse brain tissue with an off-the-shelf light microscope, using a trick that inflates a tiny sample to 16 times its original size ...

Researchers have developed a revolutionary microscope that uses an incredibly powerful laser to make previously invisible ...

The invention that first enabled researchers to see clear images of living cells was the phase-contrast microscope, which won its inventor, Frits Zernike, a Nobel Prize in 1932. Prior to Zernike's ...

Researchers have built a reconfigurable light-sheet microscope that lets users swap oil, water and air objectives while ...

As a mouse explores its environment, millions of neurons across the brain fire in sync. To study only a small subsection at a time would be to miss the forest for the trees, but powerful microscopes ...