David Scharf is one of the world's leading names in electron microscope photography: those giant, luminescent photos of tiny things like bugs, dust, and nerves. Support for LAist comes from.

Electron microscope photography is cool, and it's been around for a while, but that doesn't mean that that they can't still find cool things to take pictures of. Take a record for example.

In photography terms, the microscopes simply didn't have a quick enough shutter speed, or a high enough framerate. Pulse-Pounding. To improve on those efforts, the Arizona researchers designed ...

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The first time photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher looked at a bee’s eye magnified through a scanning electron microscope, she saw that same repeated hexagonal pattern. She was struck by the symmetry.

But the electromagnetic lenses inside electron microscopes are particularly blurry. Looking through a typical electron microscope, according to Muller, is like looking at light through a beer bottle.

Photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher uses a powerful scanning electron microscope to capture all of a bee’s microscopic structures in stunning detail. Above: a bee’s antennae sockets, magnified 43 times.

Using a Scanning Electron Microscope, retired scientific photographer Steve Gschmeissner, 61, from Bedford, is able to magnify insects by up to a million times. The results show incredibly ...

Rochester Institute of Technology professor and science photographer Ted Kinsman captures an unseen side of cannabis in his new book, "Cannabis: Marijuana Under The Microscope". These scanning ...

Now, Nikon has just announced their winners in their Small World contest, comprised solely of photographs from beefy light microscopes (Ed: NOT like the ones you probably used in science class).

Bernbaum used a scanning electron microscope, known for creating sculptural, 3D views. A field emission gun fires electrons down a vacuum chamber and past electromagnets that focus them into a beam.

While the original electron microscope arrived in the early 1930’s (there’s still a controversy to this day over who invented the very first one), scientists have relied on what are known as ...