Study of Mice Watching Movies Reveals Brain Circuit That Ensures Vision Remains Reliable
A study of mice watching movies shows our brain cells rely on a circuit of inhibitory neurons to help ensure that the same images are…
Imaging
Scientists Have Found a Way To “See” Single Cells Using Sound
If you are a researcher who wants to see how just a few cells in an organism are behaving, it is no simple task. The…
Stunning Images Captured Using the Glowing Properties of Plant Cells
Scientists have come a long way since Antonie van Leeuwenhoek discovered teeming colonies of previously invisible bacteria and protozoa while peering through his custom-made microscopes….
Capturing the Intricacies of the Brain’s Activity at Unprecedented Resolution
The neuroactivity of one million neurons in the mouse brain, at unprecedented resolution. Credit: Alipasha Vaziri New microscopy technique reveals activity of one million neurons…
Scientists Are First in the World To Watch Plants “Drink” Water in Real-Time
Scientists at the University of Nottingham have become the first in the world to find a way to observe how plant roots take in and…
New Quantum Stopwatch With Ultrafast “Time Lens” Can Improve Imaging Technologies
Researchers at CU Boulder have designed one of the most precise stopwatches yet—not for timing Olympic sprinters and swimmers but for counting single photons, or…
Unprecedented Resolution of Novel Microscope Pins Down the Miracle of Molecular Oxygen
Researchers at the University of Regensburg track the first step of the reaction of one single dye pigment with oxygen at unprecedented resolution. Why is…
Harnessing the Dark Side: Optical Singularities Could Be Used for a Wide Range of Applications
When we think about singularities, we tend to think of massive black holes in faraway galaxies or a distant future with runaway AI, but singularities…
Build a High-Resolution Microscope From LEGO and Affordable Phone Parts
Research led by Göttingen University shows constructing microscope improves children’s understanding. Microscopy is an essential tool in many fields of science and medicine. However, many…
Ordinary Microscope Sees in Super-Resolution With Specially Engineered Light-Shrinking Material
Electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego developed a technology that improves the resolution of an ordinary light microscope so that it can…
Incredible Microscope Sees Atoms at Record Resolution
In 2018, Cornell researchers built a high-powered detector that, in combination with an algorithm-driven process called ptychography, set a world record by tripling the resolution of…
To Speed Discovery, High-Dimensional Infrared Microscopy Goes “Off the Grid”
A highly efficient way to collect infrared microscopy data avoids the use of slow, grid-based raster scans. Question: What do a roundworm, a Sharpie pen,…
“Bat-Sense” Technology for Smartphones Generates Images From Sound
Scientists have found a way to equip everyday objects like smartphones and laptops with a bat-like sense of their surroundings. At the heart of the…
Stunning First 3D Super-Resolution Images Captured Inside Living Mice
New STED technique enables deep-tissue imaging, reveals subcellular dynamics of neurons. Researchers have developed a new microscopy technique that can acquire 3D super-resolution images of…
New Deep Learning AI Tool Can Revolutionize Microscopy
An AI tool developed at the University of Gothenburg offers new opportunities for analyzing images taken with microscopes. A study shows that the tool, which…
MIT Method Offers Inexpensive Imaging With Unprecedented Accuracy – At the Scale of Virus Particles
Using an ordinary light microscope, researchers can now obtain images with unprecedented accuracy. Using an ordinary light microscope, MIT engineers have devised a technique for…
A COSMIC Approach to Nanoscale Science: World-Leading Resolution of Nanomaterials
Instrument at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source achieves world-leading resolution of nanomaterials. COSMIC, a multipurpose X-ray instrument at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (Berkeley Lab’s) Advanced…
Holography “Quantum Leap” Using Entangled Photons Could Revolutionize Imaging
A new type of quantum holography that uses entangled photons to overcome the limitations of conventional holographic approaches could lead to improved medical imaging and…