We grew the bacterial cells under different conditions, and only in the condition when the liquid crystals ... We used electron cryomicroscopy, a technique in which an electron microscope operates ...

As delicious as chocolate is, it's not really much to look at, unless you happen to be looking at it through the eyes of an ...

Andrew Iams, a materials research engineer at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), saw something strange while looking through his electron microscope ... to carefully ...

A team of researchers at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, in the U.K., has re-examined an old ...

Electron microscope image of the aluminum ... To confirm they had a quasicrystal, Iams had to carefully rotate the crystal under the microscope and show that it also had threefold symmetry and ...

Under certain conditions ... first proposed by Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner, is the Wigner crystal—a structured electron arrangement caused by their mutual repulsion. Although widely theorized ...

Two laboratories recently used cryo-electron ... crystal and study the way that crystal diffracts X-rays. However, some proteins are difficult or even impossible to crystalize. Cryo-electron ...

Andrew Iams saw something strange while looking through his electron microscope ... Iams had to carefully rotate the crystal under the microscope and show that it also had threefold symmetry ...