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 ...

Today's super-resolution microscopes have made it possible to observe the nanoscale world with unprecedented detail. However, they require fluorescent tags, which reveal structural details but provide ...

April 1789: A major smallpox epidemic breaks out. In April 1789, 15 months after the First Fleet arrived in Botany Bay, a major smallpox epidemic broke out. The Europeans who’d arrived in 1788 had ...

One such state, first proposed by Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner, is the Wigner crystal—a structured electron arrangement caused by their mutual repulsion. Although widely theorized, experimental ...

Slicing Up the Rocks However, the people who study how these rocks form take it at least one step further and that is looking at rocks under the microscope ... is one of the few minerals that shows ...

The smallpox came in the mail, in a little piece of 350-year-old human skin. And the surprise discovery is dramatically rewriting the history of one of the most notorious diseases to plague humankind.

They caused empires to fall and new ones to arise. Smallpox first emerged around 68,000 years ago. We have no idea how many people it has killed, but we do that in the 20th century alone it killed ...

The Department of Biological Sciences treats the life sciences in all their breadth and diversity, including the study of molecules, cells, whole organisms, ecosystems, plants, animals and ...

Some of the microscopes on this list are for the very smallest of children, designed to be toys but with working microscope functions. Others are real scientific instruments, ideal for older ...

If your child has more than one bowel movement that is abnormally colored, especially if they haven’t had any brightly colored foods, see their doctor soon. Diagnosing the cause of abnormally ...