A team of scientists has replicated one of Thomas Edison's early experiments from his quest to make the lightbulb, but with ...

Fledgling universities funded by kings and other leaders hired professors for their chemistry departments. Organic chemistry became a recognized discipline. These developments established an entirely ...

You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light shining at it: Optical light illuminates a material's surface, ...

A doctoral student recreated a tiny piece of the universe in a bottle to investigate the chemistry that led to life on Earth.

Imaging of a rat heart created using Alpenglow Biosciences technology. (Photo courtesy of Azalia M. Martinez Jaimes and Karen M. Gonzalez of the Red Horse Lab at Stanford University) Seattle-based ...

Chloé Savard documents the secret life of microbes from a small lab inside her home, sharing magnified images that reveal a ...

Electron microscopy uses a beam of electrons to illuminate a sample and achieve much higher spatial resolution than light microscopy. Transmission electron microscopy generates an image of the ...

Without contrast, any inherent spatial resolution of a microscope is useless. It is thus the contrast mechanism that often imparts unique capabilities to a microscopy technique. Such uniqueness can be ...