A fascinating microscopic look at copper metal crystals revealing detailed structures and natural formations you rarely see ...

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Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Stanford University, and Denmark Technical University have designed a cutting-edge X-ray microscope capable of directly ...

Apatite crystal under a microscope at Paul Fitzgerald’s laboratory at Syracuse University. It was extracted from a granitic rock at the Cauca River Canyon in Colombia. The linear features observed are ...

Research teams have developed a powerful new microscope to study tiny crystals in cooled volcanic magma. These reveal how molten rock rises and could one day help predict eruptions. How can tiny ...

The optical characteristics of materials, such as their magnetooptical effects, birefringence, optical activities, linear and circular dichroism, are probed via the polarisation states of light ...