Have you ever wondered what makes shark skin so tough and sleek? It's dermal denticles—tiny, tooth-like structures that cover a shark's skin. Made of the same material as teeth and shaped like small ...

Tim McCoy (right), the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History curator of meteorites and the co-lead author on the new paper, with Cari Corrigan (left) sein a scanning electron microscopy lab ...

Electron microscopy is a powerful technique that provides high-resolution images by focusing a beam of electrons to reveal fine structural details in biological and material specimens. 2 Because ...

When you try to look at the cross-section of a newly developed alloy or try to determine the cause of a broken part, have you ...

Scanning electron microscope images of trona found in samples of the asteroid Bennu returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. Trona is water-bearing sodium carbonate, also known commonly as soda ash.

What really happens when a blade cuts through metal? An engineer builds a custom device capable of cutting aluminum inside a scanning electron microscope, then captures approximately 70 images over a ...

The instrument, which operates near absolute zero for hours, will soon ship to a few labs. Researchers are thrilled.