Cheating on physics gets us great microscopes and three Nobel Prizes

Cheating on physics gets us great microscopes and three Nobel Prizes Standard fluorescence microscopy (left) and PALM images (right). Note that the scale bar in the far right image is roughly the diffraction limit. Nobel Prizes/originally Betzig et. al., Science. This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry honors an … Read more on Ars Technica STEM […]

3 win chemistry Nobel for super-zoom microscopes

3 win chemistry Nobel for super-zoom microscopes STOCKHOLM — Three researchers won a Nobel Prize on Wednesday for giving microscopes much sharper vision than was thought possible, letting scientists peer into living cells with unprecedented detail to seek the roots of disease. The chemistry prize … Read more on Boston Globe Chemistry, Small Ball and Situational […]