by Qiang Cui Imagine you work at a grocery store and you need to figure out how many shopping carts will fit in a certain space. You know that each shopping cart is 33 inches …
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How Can We Photograph the Nanosized World?
by Ben Frank edited by Alicia McGeachy If you think back to primary school science class, you may recall looking at cells or bacteria under a microscope. I remember being fascinated that I could look …
What’s the Difference between Magnification and Resolution? Dog of Science Demonstrates.
by Tom Kuech Seeing small objects is no simple task, but it is an essential one for scientists from fields as diverse as astronomy and nanotechnology. In order to see tiny things, we need to …