Scientists have created the first detailed map of smell receptors in the nose, catching up with similar achievements in sight ...

How do photosynthetic organisms harvest light so efficiently? To help answer this question, researchers have developed an ultrafast transient ...

Polytec's Optical Measurement System. Polytec's optical measurement equipment focuses on dynamic response measurements. MEMS ...

Using artificial intelligence, engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new way to watch the ...

BRADFORD – Science students at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford have a new lab this academic year for firsthand learning and research, with strength in soil science. The new geology and ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I teach seventh grade in a suburban school. I have noticed an increasingly unsettling trend as I walk around the room to check on students: Nobody says “yes, please” or “no, thank ...

Jenny Anderson, a journalist, is author of the Substack “How to Be Brave.” Rebecca Winthrop is director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution and author of the newsletter ...

Stanford researchers have combined two microscopy techniques to create a one-of-a-kind instrument that can show cell structures interacting in real time at an unprecedented 120-nanometer ...

For those of us who weren't paying attention, over the last few years, scientists around the world have been one-upping each other in a bid to create the smallest QR code that can be reliably read.

This article describes a six-inch wafer inspection microscope that provides automated, reproducible differential interference contrast (DIC) imaging, regardless of the user’s skill level. Wafer ...

When using a measurement microscope, users can measure the size and dimensions of sample features in both two and three dimensions, which is important for inspection, quality control (QC), failure ...