Art curators and conservators now can quickly get far more detailed information than ever before by using an integrated combination of light and electron microscopy. OBERKOCHEN/Germany, ...

Nearly 60 years ago, Duke University staff brought a 17th-century sculpture to the hospital on a stretcher, hoping to uncover the secret of what lay hidden in the wooden friar’s chest. Although ...

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The light microscope was first developed and famously used in the late 1600s by the Dutch naturalist, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, to look at small pond creatures he called "animalcules." Observations ...