A fully open-source platform provides a compact rheometer that can be easily combined with optical microscopy, allowing ...

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

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

Computational fluorescence microscopy (CFM) requires accurate point spread function (PSF) characterization for high-quality ...

Prior Scientific, a global leader in precision optical instrumentation, has enhanced its advanced hardware autofocus range ...

Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, awarded their Gold Medal to Maryellen Giger (pictured here with her ...

Prior Scientific introduces PureFocus690, a real-time autofocus system for Raman and infrared microscopy in industrial, ...

Motors and gear trains with micrometer dimensions and powered by light are fabricated using semiconductor lithography and ...

Researchers found silica can outperform high-index materials for optical metasurfaces. Its chip-making compatibility enables ...

When you think about materials used in medicine, you likely picture metals, plastics, or synthetic gels. Researchers at the ...

Researchers at Tsinghua University have created a rapid, label-free method using polarized light detection to identify and ...