A “ceramic” coating goes under an atomic-force microscope, and the result is awkward: just a handful of 50–100 nm silica-like ...

With the invention of the electron microscope five decades ago, scientists have discovered blob-like structures in cells that mysteriously form, move and then disappear. Despite that the existence of ...

Aside from idle curiosity, very few of us need to see inside chips and components to diagnose a circuit. But reverse engineering is another story; being able to see what lies beneath the inscrutable ...