There is a Chinese saying that east or west, Guilin scenery is the best. Guilin and Chongqing, located in the western part of ...

Funding is tight. Grants are rejected. Research equipment is too expensive. And these are complaints heard in well-heeled laboratories in the US and UK. In the following pages, we present inspiring ...

Late 1600s – Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek constructed a microscope with a single spherical lens. It magnified up to ×275. 1800s - the optical quality of lenses increased and the microscopes ...

Microscopy refers to any method used to acquire images of nearby objects at resolutions that greatly exceed the resolving ability of the unaided human eye. Object visualization may be mediated by ...

We can use microscopes to look at objects too small to be seen by the naked eye. The microscope in the picture is a light microscope. It uses focused light passed through the object and two lenses to ...