But these microscopes produce black and white images, and that can make it difficult for researchers to focus on whatever specific parts of a cell they're most interested in. Ellisman and his ...

A white hole is thought to be the reverse of a black hole, expelling light and matter rather than absorbing them. Now, a team of researchers has designed a novel optical device with intriguing ...

A Taiwanese research team has achieved a significant breakthrough in optical microscopy, using chemical expansion to enlarge ...

Scientists may soon be able to watch viruses in action for the first time using the world's most powerful optical microscope ... small objects using ordinary white light. The 'microsphere ...

An incredible optical illusion has gone viral on Twitter ... However, all is not as it seems, and the photo is actually black and white. Lionel Page, an economist at UTC Economics, tweeted the ...

Stitching the microspheres' images together with software could create unprecedented white-light photos. “We have broken the theoretical limits of optical microscopy in white light,” said ...

AT FIRST glance, this photo looks like a normal coloured picture of a group of teenagers - but it is actually an optical illusion as it is black and white. London-based digital artist Stuart ...

“Tiny sources of high harmonics should bring optical microscopy to a ... at things at this scale has been in the black and white world of electron microscopy. “High harmonic generation has ...

not previously visible with an optical microscope. Professor Li and Dr Wang are available for interview on request. The paper, Optical virtual imaging at 50 nm lateral resolution with a white light ...

UK researchers have demonstrated the highest-resolution optical microscope ever - aided by ... a record for this kind of direct viewing with "white light" visible illumination.