Surfaces and interfaces Research update Gold lights up biological cells Biophysicists have developed a new optical technique to image proteins
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Microscopy Research update Super-fast microscope comes into focus Physicists have developed a new ultrahigh-speed scanning optical microscope
Read article: Renaissance pottery comes under the microscope Optical physics Research update Renaissance pottery comes under the microscope Italian physicists have found similarities between 500-year-old ceramics and modern metal-glass composites
Vacuum and cryogenics Research update Scientists spy on growing nanoparticles French scientists have developed a new method that monitors the growth of nanoparticles in real time
Superconductivity Research update Novel crystals form under pressure Researchers have discovered new elemental structures at high pressure
Microscopy Research update New neutrons for European scientists The UK will fund a major upgrade to the ISIS neutron source
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Structure and dynamics Research update Terahertz breakthrough at BESSY Physicists in Berlin have created the best ever beam of coherent terahertz radiation.