RIT Professor Michael Peres still vividly recalls driving home a decade ago one cold, snowy night after a conversation with one of his excited students. Emily Marshall, a student in his biomedical ...
A unique laboratory at Michigan Tech captured microscopic photography of snowflakes in a demonstration of the lab's high-powered scanning electron microscope. The Applied Chemical and Morphological ...
Skiers and farmers will be glad someday that William Wergin tested his new $100,000 microscope attachment on snow scooped from his car rather than on mold scraped from an orange. His impulsive ...
A few centuries back, advancements in the art of lens crafting and the innovations of unknown inventors led to the emergence of the microscope. Suddenly, people had a window into the microscopic world ...
(WUTR/WFXV/WPNY) – Snowflakes can come in so many intricate shapes and patterns but still look the same to the naked eye. Upon closer look under a microscope, you can see the beautiful designs that ...
In 1885, American farmer Wilson Bentley attached a camera to his microscope and took what is believed to be the very first photo of a snowflake. Although the images sold for just five cents at the ...
About a year ago, I wrote an article on Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley, the Jericho, Vt., man who proved more than 120 years ago that “no two snowflakes are alike.” By request, I’m repeating this ...