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Now researchers from the California Institute of Technology and the University of Lausanne have demonstrated an on-chip microscope based ... from negative-refractive-index materials.

This microscope provides fast and gentle imaging of living model organisms, tissues, and organoids as well as fixed optically cleared specimens. Specimens can be up to 2 cm in size and at any ...

Studying the cholesterol in carrots using a temperature-controlled polarizing microscope ... known as "cholesteryl benzoate") exhibited the refraction effect of a solid crystal when heat was ...