Assistant Professor of Chemistry Andrew Kennedy has a microscope in his Dana Chemistry office that he cherishes but never uses. It’s a gold-plated Bausch and Lomb compound microscope once owned by his ...

STOCKHOLM --Americans Eric Betzig and William Moerner and German scientist Stefan Hell won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for developing new methods that let microscopes see finer details ...

Atomic force microscopes are the tool of choice to see the tiniest atomic structures, right down to hydrogen bonds. The drawback with current models is that they're too slow to create anything but ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. CHRIS UHLMANN: Two Americans and a German have taken out the Nobel prize for chemistry for developing a ...

Steve Mirsky: Welcome to this third episode of our special Nobel Prize editions of Science Talk, the podcast of Scientific American. I am Steve Mirsky. Today, the Chemistry Prize. Staffan Normark: ...

New research from a team at the Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics within the Institute of Basic Science (IBS) in Seoul, South Korea reports on the development of an optical microscope ...

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Scientists Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday for developing cryo-electron microscopy which simplifies and improves the imaging ...

Three scientists will share the prize for developing microscopes that can study living cells in fine detail. Working independently, they took on a problem that many had assumed couldn't be solved.

Two Americans and a German shared this year's Nobel Prize for chemistry on Wednesday for making a quantum leap in light microscopy. The laureates are Eric Betzig, 54, of the Howard Hughes Medical ...

To many people, a rock is just a rock. If anyone has been house shopping, you know how realtors will mention that the countertops are "granite" and you might wonder why, from house to house, they all ...

One German and two American researchers won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for discovering how to see into living cells and molecules with unprecedented clarity. Photo: AP One German and two ...