Sometimes photographic images are not able to capture and accurately represent science – especially at very tiny scales. This is where scientific visualisation comes in.
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Articles on Microscopy
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A new exhibition pairs paintings by Indigenous Australian artists with microscopic images captured by scientists. The parallels, as this gallery of pictures shows, are intriguing.
Shaped light enables deeper imaging of biological samples under the microscope and avoids damage to the tissue.
Research is not just about producing papers.
Working with an embedded artist for a year helped one physicist realise that art and science share a lot of common ground
A better understanding of science among ordinary people validates the vast amounts of public funds spent on scientific research.
Could this new technology do for the microscopic marine world what the first telescopes did for the heavens above?
A new scanning helium microscope offers the potential for capturing images with finer resolution than optical microscopes, but without damaging samples as with electron microscopes.
Winners of the Wellcome Images Award 2015 tell us about how they got their special shot.
We all know engineering is useful, functional, even ingenious. But the engineering photography competition we hold each year provides us a chance to wander outside its merely utilitarian aspects into dimensions…
Robert Hooke was a pioneer of microscopy, when back in the 17th century he drew stunning images of insects, plant cells and fossils. Since then microscopes that use light to magnify things we can’t see…
Widening our view of the world can mean taking a much closer look at the familiar. And technology from MRI to Scanning Electron Microscopes, which use focused beams to interact with a sample’s surface…
Researchers have discovered a fluorescent protein in a Japanese eel consumed as a popular sushi snack. The discovery could help develop simpler and more sensitive tests to detect jaundice and other diseases…
As the image above illustrates, my colleagues and I at Griffith University have been able to photograph the shadow of an atom for the first time – the culmination of five years of work by our team. The…
Scientists have for the first time seem the workings of T-cells, the front-line troops that alert our immune system to go…
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