High-resolution

Researchers have combined two microscopic imaging techniques in one microscope, providing scientists with a high-resolution method of tracking single molecules in a cellular context, letting them visualize, in minute detail, what’s happening inside cells.

An advanced microscopy technique has snapped “super-resolution” 3D images inside the brains of living mice. The method is so precise it imaged the tiny twigs on the branches of neurons, and could watch how they changed over the course of a few days.

Neutrons have unique properties making them better than light, electrons, or x-rays for studying the physics and chemistry going on inside an object. Scientists at MIT's Nuclear Reactor Laboratory have developed new approaches to neutron optics, using them in the world's first neutron microscope.