Ever wanted to play around
with a powerful microscope, but don't have want to spend the thousands needed to buy one?
Not exact matches
They can be detected, measured, observed through their interaction
with other things, and atoms can be seen
with powerful electron
microscopes.
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.
But under the
microscope, this female hopper resembled a giant translucent shrimp
with many
powerful, kicking legs.
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.
When he and his team took a look at the ivy's glue
with a
powerful atomic - force
microscope, they were able to identify a previously unknown element in its adhesive.
Using one of the world's most
powerful soft X-ray
microscopes — the Scanning Transmission X-ray
Microscope (STXM) and X-ray Emission beamlines — at the Canadian Light Source in tandem
with one of the world's highest resolution aberration - corrected transmission electron
microscopes housed at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Banerjee and collaborators from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the UIC and Argonne National Laboratory were able to observe the unique electronic properties of their novel vanadium pentoxide and directly prove magnesium - ion intercalation into the material.
The University of Portsmouth and NREL collaborated
with scientists at the Diamond Light Source in the United Kingdom, a synchrotron that uses intense beams of X-rays 10 billion times brighter than the sun to act as a
microscope powerful enough to see individual atoms.
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.
They also combined
powerful microscopes with high speed cameras, capturing footage of the tiny hairs, or cilia, on the corals» surface.
Collaborating
with other labs, we will develop computational methods to determine the activity of single neurons even when the
microscope on its own isn't
powerful enough to view objects as small as single cells.
When coupled
with neurons generated from induced pluripotent stem cells collected from patients
with neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, and ALS, this
microscope becomes a
powerful tool to study the cells and their responses to disease and treatments.
In imaging, the Institute advanced researcher's capabilities
with new technology, such as
powerful laser
microscopes.
By taking multiple images of the iron - platinum nanoparticle
with an advanced electron
microscope at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and using
powerful reconstruction algorithms developed at UCLA, the researchers determined the precise three - dimensional arrangement of atoms in the nanoparticle.
Our modern imaging center is equipped
with state - of - the - art confocal laser scanning
microscopes, fluorescence and stereo
microscopes, two photon
microscope, laser microdissection
microscope and
powerful image analysis computers
with imaging software.