The combination of cutting‑edge features is fitting for a facility serving multiple fields including microbiology, food ...

This extreme magnification reveals every detail—from compound eyes to hair-like bristles—in shocking clarity.

Using a STEM-in-SEM conversion holder, we can convert a scanning electron microscope into a scanning transmission microscope.

Researchers have, for the first time, directly visualized how electronic patterns known as charge density waves evolve across ...

“The National Museum of Natural History’s large scorpion collection allowed us to analyze metal enrichment in a wide range of ...

Scorpions are the natural world’s original metalheads. Research from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ...

How do photosynthetic organisms harvest light so efficiently? To help answer this question, researchers have developed an ultrafast transient absorption microscope with sensitivity approaching the ...

Scorpions wield some of the natural world's most formidable built-in weapons, from crushing pincers to venomous stingers.

Scorpions wield some of the natural world’s most formidable built-in weapons, from crushing pincers to venomous stingers. Scientists have long known that these structures contain trace metals that ...

A stretchy, mid-level layer of nanodiamonds allows the typically hard, brittle crystal to bend, not break, under pressure.

Many scorpion species carry zinc and other heavy metals in their pincers and stingers, according to new research.

Students from Steve Johnson’s Chem 122 course attended a nuclear science tour at the University of Nevada, Reno. They ...