University of Victoria now home to world's most powerful microscope

Source: The Province Daily News

Build a better microscope and the world will beat a path to your door. That’s just what’s happening at the University of Victoria, now that the world’s most powerful microscope has been delivered to the Gordon Head campus. It will allow ...
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Forensic sleuth probes fate of royal lovers and lion hearts

Source: The Sun Daily Malaysia

MELUN, France (May 25, 2012): The French media like to call him the "Indiana Jones of the graveyards", but perhaps a better tag would be the Sherlock Holmes of forensic science. With powerful microscopes and hi-tech d ...
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MDC’s Exploration Station preschool focuses on science, math

Source: Miami Herald

About ten preschool students spent their morning picking carrots and lettuce from a garden. While some washed and organized the vegetables, a couple wandered off to find worms. The garden is not just a pastime, the st ...
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Superstar 7th Graders Publish Their Own eBook to the iBookstore

Source: MacLife

When 2012 rolled around, Andrea Santilli, a teacher at Woodlawn Beach Middle School in Gulf Breeze, Florida, wanted to find a new way to challenge her 7th grade Advanced Life Science students. She wanted to help thems develop relevant lifelong skills in ...
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Technion Improves Microscope Resolution

Source: Israellycool :: Main Page

The Technion, Israel’s institute of technology, has once again advanced humanity a few steps further in the quest for knowledge, improving microscope resolution ten-fold: Haifa’s Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has registered a patent for ...
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Nanoparticles Act As 'Artificial Atoms' To Form Complex Structures

Source: RedOrbit

A new study by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory may resolve the question over whether or not nanoparticles act as “artificial atoms” when forming molecular-type building blocks that can assemble into complex structures. The findings ...
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Pathologist probes past with today's technology

Source: The Windsor Star

The French media like to call him the "Indiana Jones of the graveyards," but perhaps a better tag would be the Sherlock Holmes of forensic science. With powerful microscopes and hi-tech diagnostics that tease out chemical signatures ...
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Tiny trout teach big lesson

Source: The Staunton News Leader

MOUNT SOLON Two hundred and thirty days ago they were tiny orange dots with two white specks on them, no bigger than a pin head. Now, they are trout and free, for better or worse, fending for themselves ...
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A new look at Apollo samples supports ancient impact theory

Source: PhysOrg.com

Theres also evidence that there was a common source for the impactors, based on composition of the chondrites. What event took place in the Solar System that sent so much material hurtling our way? Was there a massive col ...
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