Thomas Mulligan examines the cutting-edge imaging techniques that allow scientists to observe the strange behaviors and unseen structures of advanced matter. Woman is the only passenger on United ...

Nearly a century ago, Ernst Ruska and Max Knoll provided the first demonstration of a microscope that could image specimens using electrons rather than light. The earliest images obtained via this ...

Werner Heisenberg's famous uncertainty principle describes one of the most intriguing features of quantum physics: certain pairs of physical quantities describing a particle, such as position and ...