Hacker News with Generative AI: Microscopy

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 7 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 34 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 39 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 45 days ago | 0 comments

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

Photography, Science, Microscopy, Competition

31 points by danielsht 73 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 81 days ago | 2 comments

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

Science, DIY, Microscopy, Electronics, Video

28 points by joebig 89 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 99 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 155 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 155 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 173 days ago | 3 comments

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

Science, Research Misconduct, Microscopy

51 points by vasco 175 days ago | 17 comments

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

Science, Research Misconduct, Microscopy

8 points by bookofjoe 177 days ago | 0 comments

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