Electron microscopes pass beams of electrons through a specimen and have a much greater resolution than a light microscope. Their resolution can show details that are 0.0001µm apart - allowing us ...

Ray Wightman/Kristina Buch Cells of the moonflower tepal seen under a microscope He and his colleague ... let alone of such a rare tropical specimen. "This was an opportunity to take a closer ...

Place the microscope slide – either one you have prepared, or a permanent slide – on the stage. Line it up so that the specimen – if you can see it – is in the centre of the stage ...

making the molecules inside less crowded and easier to see under a microscope. Molecules lock into a gel scaffold, keeping the same relative positions even after expansion. But it wasn’t easy to image ...