Zhang You of the Entomological Society of China took first place with an image of a rice weevil—an agricultural pest—on a ...

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It has been over 30 years since the first focused ion beam was used to make a TEM specimen. FEI, a company that is now part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, has been an essential part of helping take ion ...

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A team of researchers at the University of Victoria (UVic) have achieved an advance in electron microscopy that will allow scientists to visualize atomic-scale structures with unprecedented clarity ...