Doesn’t it feel otherworldly out here?” says Colleen Durkin from the lower deck of the Rachel Carson as it glides out from ...

Some surfaces claim precision—but under an atomic force microscope, most don’t stand a chance. We scanned everything from ...

Scientists have built microscopic, light-powered robots that can think, swim, and operate independently at the scale of ...

New device could be used to observe structures as small as individual proteins, as well as the environment in which they move ...

A quantum trick based on interferometric measurements allows a team of researchers at LMU to detect even the smallest ...

A quantum trick based on interferometric measurements allows a team of researchers to detect even the smallest movements of a laser beam with extreme sensitivity.

Optical 3D metrology enables fast, non-contact surface roughness measurement of defects and roughness for precise ...

January 7 - Tune into the Peach Bowl if you are a fan of good, old fashioned quarterback competition. Long since settled as ...

UIUC's platform, christened Stomata In-Sight, combines laser scanning confocal microscopy, gas exchange instruments and machine-learning image analysis, to simultaneously observe anatomical ...

A new leaf imaging system lets scientists watch plant stomata control water loss and carbon uptake in real time.

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

Cecilia Van Cauwenberghe explains how to measure the future using nanoscale metrology and discusses the global competition ...