When you’ve got a scanning electron microscope sitting around, you’re going to find ways to push the awesome envelope. [Ben Krasnow] is upping his SEM game with a new rig to improve image ...

Kim Morgan has spent the last decade getting really, really close up to blood cells, skin flakes and more. Her artwork using ...

Scientists have discovered a remarkable new form of symbiosis — a bacterium that lives inside a single-celled organism (a ...

Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) has revolutionized the realm of microscopic analysis. By delivering astonishingly detailed images of minuscule entities such as insects, bacteria, or even the ...

The scanning electron microscope is a type of electron microscope that produces images of a sample by scanning it with a high-energy beam of electrons. The SEM is significantly more powerful than ...

Even to his discerning eye, low-vacuum scanning electron microscopes (LV-SEM) came as a welcome surprise. Kidney disease is typically diagnosed through a combination of images acquired through ...

However, biologists more often use a TEM — a transmissive electron microscope — which passes electrons through a sample to image it. [Breaking Taps] built a small device to convert his SEM ...

Moreover, the SEM images provided valuable insights into ... which is not possible with traditional optical microscopy. The ...