Scientists have identified a vast reserve of hidden gold deep beneath the Pacific Ocean. This "invisible gold" is locked ...

India's new brainstem atlas offers scientists an unprecedented map of one of the brain's least known regions.

Materials with magnetic nanostructures have a wide range of potential applications. One area is so-called spintronics, with ...

Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) are used in everything from household lighting and mobile phones to large display screens.

From overcoming classical optical limits to tracking single proteins in real time, super-resolution imaging continues to ...

An extremely fast microscopy method to research the interaction of light and matter makes it possible to study optical processes on very short timescales. To this end, a German-Italian research team ...

Genoa (Italy), 15th January 2026 - Researchers at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology) have developed an innovative microscopy technique capable of improving the ...

The winners of the 51st annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition have been announced, showcasing some of the most stunning and detailed images of the microscopic world. From insects to ...

First invented in 1985 by IBM in Zurich, Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) is a scanning probe technique for imaging. It involves a nanoscopic tip attached to a microscopic, flexible cantilever, which is ...

Both for research and medical purposes, researchers have spent decades pushing the limits of microscopy to produce ever deeper and sharper images of brain activity, not only in the cortex but also in ...

Abstract: The constantly shifting landscape of information technology—spurred by advancements in artificial intelligence, cloud computing, search engines, e-commerce, and Big Data—has intensified the ...