Imaging – What the microscope saw

Resolution in a nutshell

24th September 2018

You are standing at one end of a long road and myself and my friend are standing at the other […]

Bioluminescence is a natural process that occurs in a range of species. Marine vertebrates such as the angler fish (Melanocetus […]

Recently I have been making an effort to get back to my biology roots and trying to think of ways […]

3rd April 2018

One of the greatest and earliest contributions to the world of microscopy was the 17th century book Micrographia by […]

As the Voyager 1 space probe was leaving our solar system, Carl Sagan asked that it be turned around to […]

A solar eclipse is one of the most impressive natural sights you will see – especially if you are lucky […]

In 2013, researchers at IBM made the worlds smallest movie – A Boy and His Atom. The team were researching […]

What do Leonardo da Vinci and Edinburgh have in common? The answer is the camera obscura. The camera obscura (also […]

Imaging extends into many realms and we are not restricted to using visible light to create images. Electron Microscopy uses […]

Several years ago I read a great book on chaos by James Gleick ‘Chaos: The amazing science of the unpredictable’. […]