Have you ever stood under a dome and whispered, only to hear the echo of your voice come back much louder? Researchers at NIST used a similar principle to improve the atomic force microscope (AFM ...

Although this lack of suitable test objects does make it difficult to test the resolution of a microscope, there is no shortage of problems that could be tackled with smaller beam sizes.

Typically, anything under 200 nanometers just blurs ... Or if you want to really image atoms, try building an atomic force microscope.

The quasicrystals found in this study form the corners of 20-sided shape called an icosahedron. To prove that he found an icosahedron, Andrew Iams had ...