Stanford’s Revolutionary New Microscope Reveals Living Cells in Stunning Detail
Detail of the laser array that is part of the Interferometric Image Scanning Microscopy technology. Credit: Jim Gensheimer…
Scientists Discover Sperm Seem To Bypass a Fundamental Law of Physics
Human sperm cells may swim by exploiting unusual “odd elasticity” within their flagella, helping them move through highly…
Magnetic circular dichroism imaging of atomic-scale antiferromagnetic order at a buried interface
van der Laan, G. et al. Experimental proof of magnetic X-ray dichroism. Phys. Rev. B 34, 6529–6531 (1986).…
Consumer 3D printers power super-resolution imaging optics under $1
Researchers have demonstrated that consumer-grade 3D printers and inexpensive materials can produce advanced optical components capable of super-resolution…
Ultrafast time-resolved observation of non-thermal current-induced switching in an antiferromagnetic Weyl semimetal
Satoh, T. et al. Spin oscillations in antiferromagnetic NiO triggered by circularly polarized light. Phys. Rev. Lett. 105,…
51st Nikon Small World Winners Reveal a Hidden World of Wonders
Nikon has unveiled the winners of its 51st annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. The top 20 winning…
Terahertz field control of surface topology probed with subatomic resolution
Basov, D. N., Averitt, R. D. & Hsieh, D. Towards properties on demand in quantum materials. Nat. Mater.…
Innovative cryo-microscopy offers precise views of rapid cell activity
Optical microscopy is a key technique for understanding dynamic biological processes in cells, but observing these high-speed cellular…
Quantitative evaluation of methods to analyze motion changes in single-particle experiments
Datasets and ground truth In order to benchmark the different methods on data with a known ground truth,…
Long axial range 3D single-particle tracking using birefringent substrates
Birefringent characteristics of mica substrates The critical factor for the performance of the feedback-free (i.e., scan-free) single-particle 3D…
Stimulated Brillouin scattering microscopy with a high-peak-power 780-nm pulsed laser system
Principle of a PL-SBS microscope The SBS microscope is based on the SBS between two focused counterpropagating laser…