High-resolution imaging of plant cells is important in many plant studies, and the most commonly used method is scanning electron microscopy (SEM). But SEM can have limitations, including damage to ...

Plants are delicate things, which makes them a pain to study under an electron microscope -- you'll probably damage the very cells you're trying to look at. You'll get a much better look if the ...

Since its beginnings over 400 years ago, microscopy has made leaps and bounds—even zeroing in on individual atoms. Now, as Nick Lunn reports for National Geographic, a new type of microscopy is taking ...

A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.

With a surface resembling that of plants, solar cells improve light-harvesting and thus generate more power. Scientists reproduced the epidermal cells of rose petals that have particularly good ...

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. The Bay Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and ...

The first-place winner of the 2025 Nikon Small World in Motion Video Competition captures a self-pollinating flower. Jay McClellan via Nikon Small World in Motion Video Competition Nikon has revealed ...

If you've ever taken a biology class, you've probably seen a cell; all you need is an old microscope and a single blob of liquid. But do those cells you see in a lab behave differently than the ...

Flowers in bloom are one of the great sights in nature - but how about when they're under the microscope? These breathtaking images have been created using a colour scanning electron microscope (SEM) ...

Late 1600s – Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek constructed a microscope with a single spherical lens. It magnified up to ×275. 1800s - the optical quality of lenses increased and microscopes are ...

With a surface resembling that of plants, solar cells improve light-harvesting and thus generate more power. Scientists of KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) reproduced the epidermal cells of ...