Sentences with phrase «more powerful microscope»

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Examining those fossilized bristles through a powerful microscope, he did more than confirm his hypothesis: He also noticed that the bristles were brimming with melanosomes, color - bearing cell parts found in modern avian feathers.

Shapiro and colleagues are now building even more powerful X-ray microscopes at the Advanced Light Source to improve the platform's spatial resolution by a factor of ten.

Purdue University doctoral student Yang Xu, lead author of a new research paper on «topological insulators,» an emerging class of materials that could make possible «spintronic» devices and practical quantum computers far more powerful than today's technologies, is shown here inspecting devices made from topological insulators under a microscope before electrical measurements.

He adds that the microscope's electron beam is more powerful than natural settings, but the gelling effect could affect the lifetime of electrospray thrusters in low - Earth and geosynchronous orbit.

Then he moved to a second, more powerful Leica microscope attached to a video monitor.

Ever since Antonie van Leeuwenhoek peered through his crude microscope and confirmed that life is indeed packaged in very small containers, biologists have recruited physicists to focus stronger lenses, train more powerful rays and run ever tinier probes on cells and the molecules that make them live — and die.

Researchers used a powerful X-ray microscope at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source (ALS) to capture images of nerve cell samples at different stages of maturity as they became more specialized in their function — this process is known as «differentiation.»

The smartphone microscope is powerful enough to visualize specimens as small as 1 / 200th of a millimeter, including microscopic organisms, animal and plant cells, blood cells, cell nuclei, and more.

Researchers have combined these structures to create nanophotonic counterparts of integrated circuits, as well as more efficient solar cells, ultra-small lasers and sensors, and more powerful optical microscopes.