Imaging and microscopy – Page 10

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    Feature

    Big troubles over tiny bubbles

    2012-08-09T00:00:00Z

    Conventional wisdom suggests that nanosized bubbles should barely exist at all, so their stability for hours or days has surprised many. Philip Ball takes a close look at these minute miracles

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    Opinion

    Imaging icons

    2012-07-02T00:00:00Z

    Philip Ball celebrates olympicene’s place in the pantheon of chemical imagery

  • Pork belly
    Research

    Mystery of green bacon solved

    2012-04-02T00:00:00Z

    Scientists have used x-ray diffraction to determine the structure of the nitrite burn on bacon

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    Opinion

    The Evans balance

    2011-06-30T09:50:00Z

    Easy to use and robust, the Evans or JM balance has been on the market in various forms since 1974

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    Feature

    The terahertz gap: into the dead zone

    2007-03-01T10:36:00Z

    New materials are opening up applications for terahertz radiation in the physical, biological and medical sciences. Joe McEntee reports

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    Feature

    Colloids in the cold

    2006-01-26T14:24:00Z

    A form of microscopy is shaking up nanoscience research and forcing scientists to reconsider many established theories. Emma Davies investigates cryoTEM