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World's Most Powerful Telescope Installed by a Swedish University

Chalmers University of Technology in Goteborg, Sweden is the first institute in that country to have installed an FEI Titan scanning/transmission election microscope (S/TEM), the world's most powerful commercially-available microscope.

19 Nov 2007

Scientists to Shed Light on Osteoporosis

Ten million people in the United States are estimated to already have bone diseases, and almost 34 million more are estimated to have low bone mass, putting them at increased risk for osteoporosis, according to the National Osteoporosis Foundation.

17 Nov 2007

World's First Battery-Operated and Mobile Fluorescence Microscope

At this year's 39th World Forum for Medicine in Dusseldorf, Partec, a globally leading developer, manufacturer and provider of dedicated diagnostic solutions in the response to HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is presenting a breakthrough innovation for high sensitivity TB and Malaria diagnostics in low- and middle-income countries.

14 Nov 2007

Researchers Found Way to Optically Trap Particles Through Silicon Wafers

Microfluidic devices and molecule manipulation could benefit from research into optical trapping on silicon wafers.

13 Nov 2007

Fiber Test and Inspection Kits Unveiled by Fluke Networks

Fluke Networks has introduced three new fiber-optic kits designed to offer faster and safer installation, testing, troubleshooting, and operation of fiber links than with older methods.

13 Nov 2007

New Technique Makes Imaging Individual Atoms 100 Times Faster

Using an existing technique in a novel way, Cornell physicist Keith Schwab and colleagues at Cornell and Boston University have made the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) -- which can image individual atoms on a surface -- at least 100 times faster.

12 Nov 2007

First-Ever Success in Peering Closely at Radioactive Decay of Isotope

Radioactivity, discovered more than 100 years ago and studied by physicists ever since, would seem to be a relatively closed subject in science. However, since the 1960s, the pursuit of at least one open question about how nuclei spontaneously eject various particles has continued to nag experimentalists, largely because of an inability to make precise measurements of fleeting, exotic nuclei.

12 Nov 2007

Nikon Launches the Latest Eclipse Ti Inverted Microscope Series

Nikon Instruments, Inc. today announced the launch of its latest inverted microscope series, the Eclipse Ti. Available in three models, the new Ti offers improved system speed, increased flexibility and efficient multi-mode microscopy as part of a fully-integrated microscope system that is ideal for high-end research and live cell imaging.

1 Nov 2007

Let There Be Light - New Magnet Design

Engineers at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University have successfully tested a groundbreaking new magnet design that could literally shed new light on nanoscience and semiconductor research.

1 Nov 2007

Scientists Receives Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award 2007

Dr. Nicholas P. Economou and Bill Ward from Carl Zeiss SMT, Inc., Peabody, Massachusetts, recently received the Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award 2007. The award was presented in the category of Materials and Other Base Technologies for the development of the ORION"! helium ion microscope. The Wall Street Journal awarded the prize based on the ORIONTM technology s promise of a significantly improved resolution over more widely used electron microscopes.

29 Oct 2007