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beamshift.bsky.social
does things with electron/ion microscopes https://www.nanographs.io
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aligning microscopes is a great way to practice for the part of an eye exam where optometrists ask “which is better, 1 or 2?”

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

FREE masterclasses in japanese joinery, electronic embroidery, and many others as part of our UCL Institute of Making Summer Festival of STUFF. www.instituteofmaking.org.uk/events

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

is this the optimal lasagna assembly?

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

I am happy to see @spie.org put out this call to action for advocacy in support of federal science funding If you are American, please write to your legislators to encourage them to support the science/research enterprise. You can use the form at the SPIE link below, or write or call directly 🧪💡

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Rare find for me - full set of Philips labels

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Saint Patrick!🍀 Meet Saccharomyces cerevisiae—the yeast behind beer!🦠It ferments sugars into alcohol & CO₂ in an oxygen-free environment. At Bordeaux Imaging Center, Isabelle Svahn captured it up close using scanning electron microscopy!🔬 👉france-bioimaging.org/node/bordeaux/

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

can you spot the UX issue here?

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

Hardly new info, but BSky should know: Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply. Thank you, little guardian molluscs. 🧪🌏🚰

submitted 139 days ago • 96 comments

Stunning fluorescence and EM imaging makes for a powerfully short title: "Passage of the HIV capsid cracks the nuclear pore". Just out in @cellcellpress.bsky.social: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

submitted 160 days ago • 0 comments

oops, misplaced some bits

submitted 161 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely wild evidence of 535 million year old fossil ventral nerve cords in moulting worms. Really cool paper, I had no idea the nerve would preserve as part of the external cuticle (as clearly seen in first image, and explained in last image) 🧪🦑⚒️ www.science.org/doi/full/10....

submitted 164 days ago • 3 comments

simply having a wonderful Christmas TEM

submitted 185 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 195 days ago • 9 comments

blue electrons 🦋

submitted 203 days ago • 0 comments

lovely caustics, I could do this all day

submitted 204 days ago • 1 comment

We have created the worlds smallest pasta! #ChemSky It is... (i) 372 nm wide (+/- 138 nm) (ii) As promising for next-gen bandages as purified-starch nanofibers while avoiding wasteful purification procedures (iii) Surprisingly chewy Out now in Nanoscale Advances pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A...

submitted 217 days ago • 6 comments

This is a fun and hopefully interesting piece of work, where we compare a range of different geometries on where we can place and use a pixelated direct electron detector to explore the crystal structure of materials in an electron microscope 🔬🧪

submitted 217 days ago • 0 comments

8” wafer stage @ 52°

submitted 223 days ago • 2 comments