Tightening the focus of subcellular snapshots: Combined approach yields better cell slices for cryoET imaging

Taking images of tiny structures within cells is tricky business. One technique, cryogenic electron tomography (cryoET), shoots electrons through a frozen sample. The images formed by the electrons ...
Interesting Engineering

Scientists capture first-ever real-time images of electrons in the act of breaking bonds

Using short laser pulses, researchers have imaged the exact moment an ammonia molecule bends and sheds a hydrogen atom.
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 ...

Nasa to build nuclear reactor on Moon in next few years

It is part of US plans to build a permanent base for humans to live on the lunar surface, and would be a huge help for future ...

New microscopy technique preserves the cell's natural conditions

Researchers at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology) have developed an innovative microscopy ...
Science Daily

Electrons stop acting like particles—and physics still works

Physicists have long relied on the idea that electrons behave like tiny particles zipping through materials, even though ...