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Looks like a slanted surface of Martian desert cliffs, but this is actually an extreme closeup of a human hair. Nanoresearchers who try to describe their research often up comparing their devices to the size of a human hair - for good reason. At about 100 micrometers thick, a human hair

ucresearch [http://ucresearch.tumblr.com/post/128410787640]: > These are not the latest Muppets characters, but microscopic lasers that have been digitally enhanced with some googly-eyes. The nanolasers are built in the engineering labs at UC San Diego, and according to Janelle Shane, they have the potential to increase

These are microscopic balls of tin, imaged under scanning electron microscope (SEM) at 2500x (about 25x more magnification than the strongest optical microscope can manage). These very cool-looking tin samples are good for looking at when you’re trying to calibrate the SEM to produce the best images possible

ucresearch [http://ucresearch.tumblr.com/post/127567457311]: How Dust Is Holding Science Back > To most of us dust is just something we clean off our furniture, but to scientists dust can cause big problems in the lab. Computer chips are put together and tested in what are called clean

ucresearch [http://ucresearch.tumblr.com/post/127567457311/how-dust-is-holding-science-back-to-most-of-us] : How Dust Is Holding Science Back > To most of us dust is just something we clean off our furniture, but to scientists dust can cause big problems in the lab. Computer chips

Our lab’s 3D printer auto-generates Gothic-style support scaffolding beneath the parts we design. Not only cool-looking, it serves an important purpose, since the 3D printer by its nature must build everything up from previous layers. The more elongated the shape, the weirder the scaffold.

Unknown User: Hi Janelle, its Zak over at UCOP. I realize we haven't talked in a while and for some reason I don't have your email address saved anymore. I wanted to let you know we (finally) have finished the video about you while you were

Free snacks with purchase of new equipment: it’s a thing in optics research labs. Thorlabs started including boxes of “Lab Snacks” whenever there was extra room in a flat-rate shipment. Optics researchers are of course completely non-susceptible to inducements of this sort. Yet now, coincidentally, Newport Optics

Petri dish art by Xiao Hui Lau [http://xiaohuilau.com/2015/07/a-yeasty-4th-of-july/] Hui (pronounced “Hway”) explains: > I present you with possibly one of the more complicated pieces I’ve done so far. This is a special kind of agar (CHROMagar) plate featuring yeast! The

This seemed like a good day to post some rainbow laser modes! Light in a circular cavity makes a variety of standing wave patterns, some of which look like flowers, wagon wheels, or even tie-fighter spaceships. These images are from my simulations of the light in the cavities of