China’s only surviving Tang Dynasty gilded armor brought back to life

The simulated restoration of a gilded bronze armor from the Tang Dynasty (618-907), the only one of its kind in China, as ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN

The Hidden World of Cold-Water Corals Rises to the Surface With These Glass Sculptures That Are Resurrecting a Lost Craft

As increased industrial activity puts fragile deep-sea ecosystems at risk, one artist is raising awareness about imperiled ...
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.
Nature

Advances in electron microscopy drive diverse scientific fields

Nearly a century ago, Ernst Ruska and Max Knoll provided the first demonstration of a microscope that could image specimens using electrons rather than light. The earliest images obtained via this ...
Nanowerk

Seeing the invisible: How electron microscopy reveals the hidden structure of battery electrodes

Researchers developed a method to enhance 3D imaging of lithium-ion battery electrodes, improving visualization of internal ...
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 ...

X-ray four-wave mixing captures elusive electron interactions inside atoms and molecules

Scientists at the X-ray free-electron laser SwissFEL have realized a long-pursued experimental goal in physics: to show how ...

Scientists demonstrate low-cost, high-quality lenses for super-resolution microscopy

Researchers have shown that consumer-grade 3D printers and low-cost materials can be used to produce multi-element optical ...