Source: Unsplash That’s no moon! That’s… a distortion of our specimen caused by a phenomenon called aberration. (Is it safe to assume the Venn diagram of Star Wars fans and microscope enthusiasts is a circle?) Aberration, in optics, is the deviation of light rays...
Source: Unsplash It’s become a bit of a sitcom trope lately that parents are always asking their kids to put down their phones. But many don’t see their phones as “phones” anymore, and in fact, for most people, placing calls is the least frequent activity they do. But...
Source: Unsplash We’ve blogged about light sources before, but there’s another side to the story of perfecting your microscope imaging. Microscope illumination methods are equally as important as illumination sources. Illumination methods have come a long was from...
Source: Unsplash Scanning electron microscopy (or SEM for short) has long been used to create incredibly detailed images of our microscopic world. There is arguably no other instrument with the breadth of applications in the study of solid materials that compares with...
Source: Unsplash A Quick Overview Material science is truly an interdisciplinary field. It combines chemistry, physics, chemistry, and engineering in order to advance the discovery of new materials. The field is actually quite old, stemming back from as early as the...
Source: Unsplash Metallography is the branch of science dealing with the study of the composition and structure of metals and alloys, its control through processing, and its influence on properties and behavior. While the field was originally limited by the modest...
