Hacker News with Generative AI: Microscopy

IBM open sources $300* fully-functional Lego microscope design (2020) (medium.com)
Frustrated that his lab’s microscope kept producing bad images, IBM scientist Yuksel Temiz decided to build one himself. So he turned to his childhood obsession: LEGO.

Open Source, Science, Microscopy, LEGO, DIY

6 points by Tomte 6 days ago | 0 comments

Physicists snap the first images of "free-range" atoms (news.mit.edu)
MIT physicists have captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space.

Physics, Science, Atomic Physics, Microscopy

7 points by gmays 8 days ago | 0 comments

MIT physicists snap the first images of "free-range" atoms (news.mit.edu)
MIT physicists have captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space.

Physics, Science, Microscopy, Atomic Physics

8 points by ilamont 18 days ago | 1 comments

The term "vegetative electron microscopy" keeps showing up in scientific papers (sciencealert.com)
Earlier this year, scientists discovered a peculiar term appearing in published papers: "vegetative electron microscopy".

Science, Research, Terminology, Microscopy

120 points by SCEtoAux 22 days ago | 32 comments

Segment Anything for Microscopy (nature.com)
Accurate segmentation of objects in microscopy images remains a bottleneck for many researchers despite the number of tools developed for this purpose.

Microscopy, Image Segmentation, Computer Vision, Scientific Research

3 points by bookofjoe 98 days ago | 0 comments

3D-printed open source optical microscope for low-cost histological imaging (biorxiv.org)
We present the manufacture and characterisation of a fully 3D printed, low-cost optical microscope using both a 3D printed chassis and 3D printed illumination and imaging optics.

3D Printing, Microscopy, Open Source, Biology, Medical Technology

5 points by walterbell 125 days ago | 1 comments

3D-printed microscope in <3 hours – costs $60, lenses, camera, and Raspberry Pi (tomshardware.com)

3D Printing, Hardware, Science, Microscopy

7 points by ashepp 130 days ago | 2 comments

Fantastic Planet: The Microscopy Album of Marinus Pieter Filbri (1887–88) (publicdomainreview.org)
Toward the beginning of this album of photographs belonging to Marinus Pieter Filbri, there is a series of shots of the phases of the moon; closing it out, a glimpse through the gauze of an insect’s wing, magnified eighty times its normal size. Intentionally or not, this juxtaposition draws a visual parallel between the unimaginable scale of celestial objects and the invisibly small realm of the microscopic, as if to suggest that both, in the end, are equally alien.

Microscopy, Photography, History, Science

14 points by prismatic 137 days ago | 0 comments

Nikon Small World Microscopy Winners (2024) (nikonsmallworld.com)

Photography, Science, Microscopy, Competition

31 points by danielsht 164 days ago | 0 comments

Positioning single atoms with a scanning tunnelling microscope (1990) (nature.com)
SINCE its invention in the early 1980s by Binnig and Rohrer1,2, the scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) has provided images of surfaces and adsorbed atoms and molecules with unprecedented resolution.

Science, Nanotechnology, Microscopy, Physics

12 points by sandwichsphinx 172 days ago | 2 comments

How to Make an STM (Scanning Tunneling Microscope) [video] (youtube.com)

Science, DIY, Microscopy, Electronics, Video

28 points by joebig 180 days ago | 1 comments

Scientists Film 'Giant' Mimivirus in Action (tus.ac.jp)
For the first time, we can see footage of a 'giant' virus as it infects a cell

Science, Viruses, Biology, Microscopy

4 points by geox 190 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: CNC Microscopy for Fun (anfractuosity.com)
I wanted to build a CNC microscope using off the shelf parts in order to attempt image fairly large objects such leaves, CD-ROMs etc. to reveal detail that can’t be seen with the naked eye.

DIY, Microscopy, 3D Printing

132 points by anfractuosity 246 days ago | 24 comments

Diatom Arrangements (trebeljahr.com)
This post is a bit of an odd one: it's a collection of images of diatom arrangements. Diatoms are single-celled algae that have a glass shell, that refracts light in beautiful colors if viewed under a microscope. They are a common subject for microscopy because of their unique shapes.

Microscopy, Biology, Art, Nature

215 points by trebeljahr 246 days ago | 44 comments

Image Is the Highest Resolution We've Ever Seen Atoms: ScienceAlert (sciencealert.com)

Science, Microscopy, Physics, Nanotechnology

14 points by rbanffy 264 days ago | 3 comments

Thousands of papers misidentify microscopes, in possible sign of misconduct (retractionwatch.com)

Science, Research Misconduct, Microscopy

51 points by vasco 266 days ago | 17 comments

Thousands of papers misidentify microscopes, in possible sign of misconduct (retractionwatch.com)

Science, Research Misconduct, Microscopy

8 points by bookofjoe 268 days ago | 0 comments

Neutral beam microscopy using magnetic beam spin encoding (nature.com)