A
powerful microscope is a tool that helps scientists see extremely small objects and details that cannot be seen with the naked eye.
Full definition
The scientists then froze the rafts in liquid nitrogen and studied them
under powerful microscopes to figure out how the ants kept everyone safe and the water out.
The ice cores — analyzed
with powerful microscopes — were drilled as part of the North Greenland Ice Core Project led by project leader Dorthe Dahl - Jensen of the Centre for Ice and Climate at the Neils Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen.
Powerful electron microscopes have been used for decades to probe materials at atomic - scale; and right next door to the Molecular Foundry is Berkeley Lab's National Center for Electron Microscopy, which houses the
most powerful microscopes in the world.
Using a combination
of powerful microscopes, hand lenses, and 3D reconstructions, the researchers looked for telltale signs of deliberate cutting on the cow skull.
The atoms and molecules are in turn constituted by tiny «energy events,» invisible even under the
most powerful microscope.
Finally, luminescence, fluorescence and optical imaging are all state - of - the - art imaging techniques that can be used to paint targets as small as a strand of DNA with glowing substances to make them stand out when scanned or observed under a
very powerful microscope.
In his shipboard photography studio — outfitted with special aquariums and
a powerful microscope — Zankl set out to capture the unique features and behaviors of these otherworldly organisms.
After digging the delicate relics out of rocks in northern Germany, researchers examined the scales that cover butterfly and moth wings, bodies, and legs (pictured) under
a powerful microscope.
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.
In a study whose results were published in Nature last July, physicist Ali Yazdani used
a powerful microscope to track electrons as they encountered stairlike barriers on the surface of antimony, a material that shares several characteristics with topological insulators such as bismuth telluride.
Using
a powerful microscope to observe mouse oocytes as they split, Ellenberg's group found that the spindles assembled into two coherent structures, one for the future egg and one for the future polar body.At first, spindles appeared throughout the cell in a sort of mesh.
The laser in a tiny but
powerful microscope is giving neuroscientists their best look yet at how the brains of rats work as they scurry about their daily activities.
Now, scientists at UCLA have used
a powerful microscope to image the three - dimensional positions of individual atoms to a precision of 19 trillionths of a meter, which is several times smaller than a hydrogen atom.
Then, using
a powerful microscope that magnifies and lights up the electrical circuitry of the cells, they watched the chain of events that unfolded inside them.
On race day, 14 teams injected specially modified version of two cell lines, Dictyostelium (or Dicty) and HL60, which are commonly used to study cell movement (known as chemotaxis), into a 1 - millimeter - long silicone - based maze underneath
a powerful microscope.
They examined the structure and proteins in the clam's tiny eyes using
a powerful microscope and concluded that its vision is likely too poor to allow it to observe displays by other clams.
Researchers used genetically modified mice in which the axons in the corticospinal tract, a bundle of nerves carrying signals from the brain to the spinal cord, were «stained» with fluorescent matter visible under
a powerful microscope.
As
a powerful microscope peers into its brain, a mouse runs on a ball.
Eight decades later Ernst Ruska won a Nobel for his design of
a powerful microscope that exploited the electron's wave behavior.
Using
powerful microscopes, researchers filmed tiny hairs on the surface of corals «stirring up» surrounding water.
Using
a powerful microscope that lets researchers see the formation of crystals in real time, a team led by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that negatively charged molecules — such as carbohydrates found in the shells of mollusks — control where, when, and how calcium carbonate forms.
In a study led by the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, researchers used
a powerful microscope that allows them to see the birth of crystals in real time, giving them a peek at how different calcium carbonate crystals form, they report September 5 in Science.
Then the researchers examined them using
a powerful microscope and X-rays.
Also, for the first time, the chemists demonstrated that the «cooking,» or heating up, of the ingredients for the nanomaterial can take place inside the imaging tool itself, in this case
a powerful microscope called a transmission electron microscope.
To follow up on this, Olson and her crew used
a powerful microscope to look at cross-sections of the Flint pipes.
It is a mystifying, continually absorbing trek into the cryptically unknown, the ideas being discussed and discovered putting the human experience as a whole under
a powerful microscope where the image being dissected isn't always an appealing or satisfying one.
Ever wanted to play around with
a powerful microscope, but don't have want to spend the thousands needed to buy one?