Optical microscopy sets new records
Researchers have produced the highest-resolution ever optical image
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Glass behaves like a metal
The similarity between glass and metal fracture has been shown for the first time
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Molecular dots rise for information storage
Scientists make a high-density molecular memory device
Nanotechnology is good for the heart
Scientists have built a nanoscale device that can detect proteins associated with heart attacks
Lasers target hard drugs
Laser spectroscopy could be used to detect heroin and morphine
Hollow core cuts Raman thresholds
Photonic fibres could shift gas-based nonlinear optics into a new regime
Electrons probe single atoms
A breakthrough in electron microscopy could boost the semiconductor industry
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X-ray beams thin out
Analytical techniques could benefit from the narrowest-ever beams of X-rays
Electron pulses reach the femtosecond scale
Bursts of electrons – rather than light – could probe ultra-fast processes
Crystals give clues to ancient cosmetics
X-ray diffraction reveals how Egyptians made their characteristic black eye make-up
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