Results tagged “microscope” from 60 Second Science

See that sweetness to the right? It's an actual image of the precise structure of a bridge of atoms that links two gold crystals. It was captured by one of the world's most powerful transmission electron microscopes, called TEAM 0.5 for short, and it was installed yesterday at the University of California-Berkeley.

TEAM can deliver crisp, clear, color-rich images of objects less than half the diameter of a hydrogen atom (that's half a ten-billionth of a meter). It can produce such high-quality images because the beam of energy sent down the column is bolstered by brand new error-correcting technology that allows the user to adjust focus atom by atom. This effectively cuts down on the image noise generally associated with electron microscopes.

(Check out a pic of TEAM after the jump)

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Have you ever been on the subway and wanted to analyze that odd stain on the seat next to you and thought, "Damn! If only I had my microscope!"? Well, worry no longer, because we (and by 'we,' I mean Japan) have a solution!

These Japanese disposable microscope cards come in a pack of 5 and enable you to magnify small amounts of blood, fabric, semen, blood, or semen up to 1000 times normal size, depending on light available and distance from the user's eye.

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If there's one thing I enjoy more than eating a Thanksgiving feast, it's throwing it under a microscope and seeing all that flavor on a molecular level. Mmmmmmmm....molecular level.....

In light of that, let us give thanks, not only to the Native Americans and the pilgrims who would later repay their noble savage saviors with wholesale genocide, but also to the big dorkuses at Wired. They've put nearly all the Thanksgiving classics under the mic(roscope) for your viewing pleasure.

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