co-authored by Arielle Mensch & Yi Cui We recently received a very intriguing question from a 12-year old reader, Olivia, who asked, “How do scientists figure out the texture of cells?” This is a great …
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Royal Rife’s Universal Microscope (and Why It Can’t Exist)
by Natalie Hudson-Smith edited by Merve Doğangün In the 1930s, microscope designer Royal Rife made a splash with reports that he had designed a new microscope that could view nanoscale objects such as viruses!1 The …
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 …