What you're looking at above is not bubbles of melted gold on a rusted surface. It's dried-up blobs of espresso coffee. The high-power microscope image is part of Nikon Small World, a contest that ...

This schematic diagram maps out the binding energy (or superconducting energy gap) of individual electrons in a copper-oxide (cuprate) superconductor as measured by a sensitive microscope scanning ...

With the invention of the electron microscope five decades ago, scientists have discovered blob-like structures in cells that mysteriously form, move and then disappear. Despite that the existence of ...

Aside from idle curiosity, very few of us need to see inside chips and components to diagnose a circuit. But reverse engineering is another story; being able to see what lies beneath the inscrutable ...