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Some of you probably know this already, but there’s actually more than one kind of electron microscope. In electronics work, the scanning electron microscope (SEM) is the most common.

Next he trolled eBay for cheap ... electron beam onto the sample. Eventually he took a refrigerator magnet and moved it around the outside of the glass vacuum chamber that surrounds the microscope ...

As a kid, you may remember getting your first glimpse of paramecium in pond water or the cell structure of an onion by peering through a microscope. © Hero Images ...

Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a vital tool for visualizing the structures of proteins and other biomolecules, but the enormous cost of buying and running the microscopes means that ...

A Scanning Electron Microscope uses a targeted beam of high-energy electrons on a test sample to produce an image or detect specific details. Electron-sample interactions can reveal a lot about a ...

Scripps Research scientists used a cryo-electron microscope to create this image of a piece of the potentially deadly Lassa virus. (Hailee Perrett, Scripps Research) The “resolution revolution ...