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Advanced X-Rays Reveal the Cause of Discoloration in Van Gogh Painting

Scientists have used powerful X-ray beams to find out the cause of color degradation in a Van Gogh painting. Certain parts in the "Flowers in a blue vase" painting have changed in color, which is suspected to be due to a varnish coating which had been applied for protection.

15 Sep 2012

Daylight Solutions Receives Grant from National Science Foundation for its Patented Infrared Microscope

Daylight Solutions. offers imaging and molecular detection systems that find their application in medical diagnostics, scientific research, defense, and even in commercial markets. Years of hard research has made the company come out with the development of infrared microscopes that use a special patented technology in the application of quantum cascade lasers (QCLs).

13 Sep 2012

TESCAN Announces Delivery of 1000th VEGA-3 Variable Pressure SEM

TESCAN, a major manufacturer and provider of focused ion beam workstations and scanning electron microscopes, has announced the delivery of its 1000th VEGA-3 variable pressure scanning electron microscope to the Geosciences Department of the University of Montana.

12 Sep 2012

Rice University Researchers Advocate Photoluminescent Probes to Enhance DNA Analysis

Angel Martí, an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Bioengineering and Kewei Huang, his graduate student in the Rice University have been involved in the study of fluorescent spectroscopy to detect the DNA structure of any molecule. The paper presented by the researchers has been presented in Analytical Chemistry, a journal of American Chemical Society.

10 Sep 2012

Carl Zeiss Microscopy Embark on World Tour of Universities

ZEISS on Your Campus (ZOYC) by Carl Zeiss is a traveling tour bringing free microscopy workshops to universities and institutes throughout the world and has attracted more than 2000 attendees since. The tour was launched in 2009 in the United States and was expanded to Europe, Asia and Latin and South America this year, beginning in March.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 7 Sep 2012

New IR Spectroscopy Technique to Investigate Pharmacological Agent-Protein Interactions

Researchers from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have developed a novel surface-sensitive spectroscopy method that enables atomic level study of interaction between proteins and pharmaceuticals.

3 Sep 2012

Bruker Provides Multiple ContourGT-X 3D Optical Microscopes to Semiconductor Leader

Bruker has reported the sale of multiple Bruker ContourGT-X 3D optical microscopes to a major semiconductor supplier for its packaging facilities located in North America and Asia to aid copper wire bond inspection and process control requirements.

31 Aug 2012

Plasmonic Electrochemical Current Imaging for Examining Electrocatalytic Activity of Nanoparticles

A Biodesign Institute researcher at the Arizona State University, Nongjian Tao has discovered a novel method of measuring the catalytical reactions of single nanoparticles. Effective nanoparticle catalysts are required to carry out many vital functions.

29 Aug 2012

Navitar Launch New Catalog for Biomedical and Life Science Products

Navitar, a leading manufacturer of modular and high performance optical components designed for high magnification imaging applications, is pleased to announce their new Optical Solutions for Life Science and Biomedical Imaging product catalog.

From Navitar Inc. 23 Aug 2012

Leica’s G-STED Microscope Provides Unprecedented Views into Human Immune System

Texas Children's Hospital has become the first North American institution to own a Leica microsystems gated stimulation emission depletion (G-STED) microscope, which enables scientists to capture less than 40 nm resolution images within live cells.

22 Aug 2012