First, she buys the glass for cheap from manufacturers in Japan, Germany, and other places here and overseas. It’s often times fragmented, scrapped, or – on the contrary – it’s deadstock, meaning an ...

TIRF is a microscopy technique that is used to image fluorescent molecules, such as green fluorescent protein (GFP) and fluorochromes, in liquids that are adjacent to a solid with a high refractive ...

Cool operator: the Saharan silver ant Cataglyphis bombycina. (Courtesy: P Landmann) A species of desert-dwelling ant is able to tolerate temperatures exceeding 50 °C because its body hairs act like ...

Living in the searing hot Sahara Desert is no joke at all. But for the Saharan silver ant, this isn’t much of a problem — its own heat repellant system will take care of things. The body hairs of this ...

In TIRF microscopy, fluorescent molecules are in a sample in an aqueous environment that is near a solid with a high refractive index, usually a glass coverslip. At what is called the critical angle, ...