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Electron microscope hack to see graphene

Using a STEM-in-SEM conversion holder, we can convert a scanning electron microscope into a scanning transmission microscope. Neat!
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Scientists use ultrafast laser to flip materials into a different electronic state

A burst of invisible light can do more than illuminate a surface. In a new study, Michigan State University researchers used ...

Giant Prototaxites fossil reveals an extinct branch of complex life on Earth

Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have ...
PE Hub

Short holds in focus: Carlyle’s Petr Rieger on Tescan’s rapid EBITDA growth during three-year hold; Eurazeo to sell Ex Nihilo stake to L Catterton after two years

Morning all, Craig McGlashan here in London on Europe Wire duty. With DPI at the forefront of LPs’ minds – and by extension, ...
PE Hub

Carlyle’s growth play at Tescan yields EBITDA boost and $850m sale

The Carlyle Group is exiting electron microscope company Tescan Group after a three-year hold thanks to gains in market share ...

Lifting magnetic fingerprints using scanning probe microscopy

A Czech and Spanish-led research team has demonstrated the ability to distinguish subtle differences between magnetic ground ...

Piercing pathogens: A new anti-biofilm strategy

A bacterial cell settles onto a nondescript surface. It is plump, healthy and functioning as it should. Nothing appears amiss ...
The American Bazaar

Harvard’s Aravinthan Samuel gets a better look at brains

Indian American researcher’s new AI-enhanced scanning method promises to boost quest for high-resolution mapping of the brain ...
AlphaGalileo

A View into the Innermost Workings of Life: Hesse's First Scanning Electron Microscope with Nanomanipulator Inaugurated

Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany) ceremonially commissioned a state-of-the-art cryo plasma-FIB scanning electron microscope with nanomanipulator ...
Science X Network

Imaging living cells: First scanning electron microscope with nanomanipulator inaugurated

Science X is a network of high quality websites with most complete and comprehensive daily coverage of the full sweep of science, technology, and medicine news ...
EurekAlert!

A view into the innermost workings of life: Hesse's first scanning electron microscope with nanomanipulator inaugurated in at Goethe University

Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany) ceremonially commissioned a state-of-the-art cryo plasma-FIB scanning electron microscope with nanomanipulator worth more than 5 million euros on Thursday. The ...
BioTechniques

Visualizing the invisible: 5 recent breakthroughs in microscopy

Microscopy continues to transform the life sciences. Here are five recent breakthroughs made possible by the technique.