SAN ANTONIO — Students at Edison High School added a salt solution to their microscope slides and watched in awe Wednesday as tiny dots of chloroplasts in plant cells moved away from the outer walls.

If you want to get a child interested in the sciences, just let them loose with a microscope. Proper stage microscopes can be pricey, however, and are somewhat tricky for youngsters to use.

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The Bugscope project provides free, interactive access to a scanning electron microscope over the internet, so that students anywhere in the world can explore the microscopic world of insects. Run by ...

They call it “the underworld” — a corridor of windowless labs buried 23 feet below the Beckman Institute. Here in the underworld, they house microscopes; massively expensive, research-grade ...

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There are a lot of situations where a research group may turn to an electron microscope to get information about whatever system they might be studying. Assessing the structure of a virus or protein, ...

It’s a problem that few of us will ever face, but if you ever have to calibrate your scanning electron microscope, you’ll need a resolution target with a high contrast under an electron beam. This ...