Scientists at Delft University of Technology have managed to watch a single atomic nucleus flip its magnetic state in real time. Using a scanning tunneling microscope, they indirectly read the nucleus ...

Bernd Rieger is in the Department of Imaging Physics, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft 2628 CJ, the Netherlands. Enya S. Berrevoets is in the Department of Imaging ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science have advanced DNA-PAINT microscopy to visualize up to 12 biomolecules inside a cancer cell nucleus at resolutions as fine as 3–5 nanometers. The ...

Using a tiny, spherical glass lens sandwiched between two brass plates, the 17th-century Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first to officially describe red blood cells and sperm cells ...

A new measurement of the strong nuclear force, which binds protons and neutrons together, confirms previous hints of an uncomfortable truth: We still don’t have a solid theoretical grasp of even the ...