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Centre Providing Materials Scientists with Unique Atomic Insights

With a groundbreaking ceremony, work began today on an extension to the Ernst Ruska-Centre (ER-C) on the campus of Forschungszentrum Jülich. Under the umbrella of the Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA), fro...

6 Nov 2009

Scientists Observe Movements of Aggressive Cells "Live" Under the Microscope

In diseases such as multiple sclerosis, cells of the immune system infiltrate the brain tissue, where they cause immense damage. For many years, it was an enigma as to how these cells can escape from the bloodstream.

5 Nov 2009

Spectacles Give Researchers an Even Better Insight into Matter

An electron microscope with glasses that correct the spherical aberration of the lens in order to achieve even higher resolution is currently being assembled at the Electron Microscopy Centre (EMEZ).

5 Nov 2009

Physicists Create Quantum Gas Microscope for Observing Single Atoms at Low Temperatures

Physicists at Harvard University have created a quantum gas microscope that can be used to observe single atoms at temperatures so low the particles follow the rules of quantum mechanics, behaving in bizarre ways. The...

4 Nov 2009

World's Fastest Light Microscope Wins "Best Business Idea" Bwcon Award

A jury consisting of four top-class IT decision-makers selected the best business idea at the 8th Heidelberg Innovation Forum on 20th October 2009. The winner is Prof. Christoph Cremer of the Kirchhoff Institute of Physi...

3 Nov 2009

Mobile Microscopes to Study Complex Activity of Brain

By building a tiny microscope small enough to be carried around on a rats` head, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, have found a way to study the complex activity of many brain cells simultaneously while animals are free to move around.

3 Nov 2009

JPK Instruments Hosted Annual Symposium on SPM and Optical Tweezers

2009 is the tenth anniversary of the founding of leading life sciences and nanotechnology company, JPK Instruments. In celebration, the company hosted their eighth annual symposium on the applications of scanning probe microscopy (SPM) alongside the second annual symposium on optical tweezers.

From Bruker BioAFM 2 Nov 2009