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How #RCA's #VideoDisc Failure Became a #Semiconductor Success Story. This #HomeVideo Wannabe launched a scanning #microscope. RCA expected the VideoDisc to capture half of the home video market, but instead it lost out in a big way to #VHS. But the exquisitely sensitive capacitance sensors used in the VideoDisc players were capable of measuring capacitance differences on the scale of attofarads (1 × 10-18 farad), perfect for the scanning capacitance microscope (#SCM)!
https://spectrum.ieee.org/rca-videodisc

RCA VideoDisc's Legacy: Scanning Capacitance Microscope

RCA spent millions developing its home video system. It flopped, but the underlying tech led to an advanced microscope that shaped modern semiconductors.

IEEE Spectrum

Molecular Imaging Oct 28

Scanning Tunneling Microscope in Liquid by Molecular Imaging
Molecular Imaging introduces groundbreaking capabilities with its #scanning #tunneling #microscope in #liquid #systems Designed for researchers seeking high-resolution imaging of surfaces in natural environments, this technology opens new possibilities in materials science and electrochemistry. Experience unmatched control and clarity with Molecular Imaging’s next-generation STM innovation.
https://www.apsense.com/article/867408-the-hidden-world-in-a-drop-of-water-unveiling-secrets.html

The Hidden World in a Drop of Water: Unveiling Secrets with Liquid-Phase Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM)

Picture this: you’re trying to understand the most intricate dance in nature how a drug latches onto a protein, or how a battery electrode truly charges. For years, we’ve had to study these events after the fact, like trying to understand a symphony from a single, frozen sheet of music. The magi...

Hacker News Oct 26

Making the Electron Microscope

https://www.asimov.press/p/electron-microscope

#HackerNews #Making #the #Electron #Microscope #science #technology #innovation #microscopy #microscopyhistory

Making the Electron Microscope

In a little over a century, the electron microscope evolved from a tool barely capable of resolving virus particles into one able to capture atomic detail.

Asimov Press

@Co_Biologists Oct 24

FocalPlane's #FeaturedImage was acquired by Aswathy G Krishnan and shows a neural rosette of a cerebral organoid derived from hiPSCs.

In this post, we learn more about the image and Aswathy’s research:

https://focalplane.biologists.com/2025/10/10/featured-image-with-aswathy-g-krishnan/

#Microscopy #Imaging #Microscope #CellBiology #Cells #FluorescenceFriday

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Tydence Oct 22

Found a CD! Sure enough, you can see all the little pits.
Zeiss Axioscope, Brightfield, 100x
#microscope

Kamu İş İlanları, Haberler Oct 16

The Microscope Turret: A Gateway to Magnification? https://theblogofscience.com/the-microscopes-turret-a-gateway-to-magnification/

#Microscope #Turret #Optics #Magnification #Biology #Science #Laboratory #Imaging #Microscopy #Education

The Microscope Turret: A Gateway to Magnification? - The Blog of Science

The microscope turret, also known as the nosepiece, is arguably one of the most crucial mechanical components of a compound microscope. This rotating

The Blog of Science

🦅RichKeller Photography🏳️‍🌈Oct 15

If you like photographs of teeny-tiny, itty-bitty, wittle-wee-things like me then this is likely up your alley.

#macro #micro #microscope #MicroscopicLife #PhotoMicrography

https://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2025/oct/16/nikon-small-world-photomicrography-2025-in-pictures

Magnifying the minuscule: Nikon Small World photomicrography 2025 – in pictures

Weevils, spores, slime mold and cells in extreme closeup for the 51st anniversary of the Nikon Small World competition

the Guardian

NGI Zero open source funding Oct 15

"One fast growing aspect of the internet, that is generally unseen to the general public, is #telemedicine . This could be entirely remote diagnoses, communication between doctors, allowing for remote second opinions, enabling greater training opportunities for doctors in remote areas to join conferences discussing difficult cases."

Read @APC 's interview with Julian Stirling, lead developer of OpenFlexure , the #openhardware laboratory-grade #microscope .

https://www.apc.org/en/news/openflexure-making-microscopes-open-and-accessible-technology-benefit-many

#NGI0 #NGI

OpenFlexure on making microscopes an open and accessible technology for the benefit of many

The OpenFlexure project uses 3D printers and readily available components to produce open-source, laboratory-grade microscopes at a fraction of the cost of traditional models. Now used in over 50 countries across every continent, it has applications in fields such as education and training, telemedicine and much more.

Association for Progressive Communications

@Co_Biologists Oct 9

Registration is now open to attend Journal of Cell Science's meeting on Imaging Cell Dynamics, organised by Francesca Bottanelli, Guillaume Jacquemet, Michael Way and Giulia Zanetti.

Find out more: https://biologists.com/meetings/jcsimaging/

#JCSimaging #Microscopy #Microscope #Imaging #Cells #CellScience