A printed circuit board (PCB) is a core unit of an electronic device with electronic parts mounted on a circuit board. The electronic parts conduct appropriate amounts of current or electric signals ...

UCD researcher Prof Brian Rodriguez works with some pretty powerful equipment, much to the chagrin of US Homeland Security. Behind many great technological breakthroughs are physicists who helped ...

Grace C Roberts works at Queen's University, Belfast and receives funding from The Wellcome Trust. Viruses are often termed “the invisible enemy”. They aren’t visible with the naked eye, or even by ...

From the classroom to your home lab, these student microscopes offer sharp detail, easy use and great value for budding scientists. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Hey folks! I figured this would be best in the observatory. I'm relearning how to use microscopes and learning for the first time how to really use them more effectively, so that I can show my ...

3D microscopes are used in applications from the life sciences to semiconductor manufacturing. Now engineers are developing patented and patent-pending innovations making them work faster to capture ...

In the rural parts of Uganda, lab technicians spend hours each day on thankless and seemingly unceasing work. The most common tests they run are for malaria. A technician smears a blood sample on a ...

A project using the science of light to illuminate proteins at extremely high resolutions has been granted more than €5.6m in European funding. Scientists are developing a new microscope that can ...

Sci-fi movies have shown us what it might be like to shrink down to the size of an ant, or to blow a grasshopper up to the size of a skyscraper. And while a shrink ray may never be a scientific ...