Bolt-on 'superlens' gives microscope nanoscale vision

Concentric rings of plastic on gold allow an optical microscope to resolve objects too small to otherwise be seen (Image: Science/Maryland University)

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This image of the male sex organ of a flowering plant took first place in Nikon's annual Small World photomicrography competition this year.

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Since 1975, Nikon has been awarding annual prizes to scientists and enthusiasts who take pictures through a microscope. Popularly known as a maker of professional and consumer cameras, the company is also a major manufacturer of biological and industrial microscopes.

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Rolls of a new material could be used to upgrade conventional light microscopes, allowing them to image objects usually only visible to electron microscopes.

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Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, in Livermore, CA, have created the first carbon-nanotube devices that can detect the entire visible spectrum of light.

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A tiny microscope that employs the same kind of chip used in digital cameras can produce high-resolution images of cells without the expensive, space-hogging lenses that have been part of microscope design for centuries.

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Started in 1974, The Nikon Small World Competition is held annually to recognize excellence in photographs taken through a microscope. This year more than 2,000 micrographs were received from around the world.

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Hailed as the world's most powerful transmission electron microscope, TEAM 0.5 is living up to expectations. Using TEAM 0.5 (TEAM stands for Transmission Electron Aberration-corrected Microscope), researchers with the U.S.

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Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have turned science fiction into reality with their development of a super-compact high-resolution microscope, small enough to fit on a finger tip.

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Microscopic, semi-autonomous robots have begun to assemble themselves into larger structures in a Duke University lab.

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"TEAM 0.5, the world's most powerful transmission electron microscope — capable of producing images with half‑angstrom resolution (half a ten-billionth of a meter), less than the diameter of a single hydrogen atom — has been installed at the Department of Energy's National  …

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The American Society for Microbiology website: Microbelibrary.org has an inventory of over 500 visual resources in their visual collection which is free. According to the website, "As of September 2007, there are over 500 visual resources in the MicrobeLibrary.

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MIT researchers have designed a microscope for generating three-dimensional movies of live cells. The microscope, which works like a cellular CT scanner, will let scientists watch how cells behave in real time at a greater level of detail.

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Standard imaging techniques have been used to magnify very small stuff for a long time. However, as the demands of science and in particular biology grew, the standard microscope failed to deliver the goods.

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A computer system that automatically tracks the movements of proteins within a living cell has been developed by a team of biologists and computer vision experts.

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