You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light shining at it: Optical light illuminates a material's surface, ...

How physically magnifying objects using a key ingredient in diapers has opened an unprecedented view of the microbial world.

Photoshop cc 2014 tutorial showing how to create the photographic, optical illusion called the “Hybrid Effect”. This effect combines two different photos into one image. When the image is viewed at ...

Photoshop cc 2015 tutorial showing how to create a mind-bending, optical illusion that makes an image appear to be moving. Royalty-Free Music provided by Beatsuite.

Until today, skin, brain, and all tissues of the human body were difficult to observe in detail with an optical microscope, since the contrast in the image was hindered by the high density of their ...

Microscopes have long been scientists’ eyes into the unseen, revealing everything from bustling cells to viruses and nanoscale structures. However, even the most powerful optical microscopes have been ...

QIScope: When imaging low protein levels in live cells on the high-sensitivity QIScope, bioluminescence (blue) significantly outperforms fluorescence (green). (Courtesy: Ruyu Ma - Helmholtz Munich) A ...

BioAFM is seeing increasingly widespread use in biomedical and biological studies due to its extremely high resolution and its capacity to perform experiments with live cells in liquid and under ...

In context: 3D printing is slowly becoming mainstream, having moved beyond functional prototyping, rapid tooling, trinkets, and toys. We have already seen people use 3D printers to create fashion ...