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Ein internationales Forscherteam entdeckt Zahnreste bei einer ausgestorbenen Art aus der Fundstätte Wucaiwan in China und rekonstruiert die Verbreitungsgeschichte der Reptiliengruppe (more…)
Ein internationales Forscherteam entdeckt Zahnreste bei einer ausgestorbenen Art aus der Fundstätte Wucaiwan in China und rekonstruiert die Verbreitungsgeschichte der Reptiliengruppe (more…)
For years, scientists have had an itch they couldn’t scratch. Even with the best microscopes and spectrometers, it’s been difficult to study and identify molecules at the so-called mesoscale, a region of matter that ranges from 10 to 1000 nanometers in size. Now, with the help of broadband infrared light from the Advanced Light Source (ALS) synchrotron at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), researchers have developed a broadband imaging technique that looks inside this realm with unprecedented sensitivity and range.
By combining atomic force microscopy with infrared synchrotron light, researchers from Berkeley Lab and the University of Colorado have improved the spatial resolution of infrared spectroscopy by orders of magnitude, while simultaneously covering its full spectroscopic range, enabling the investigation of variety of nanoscale, mesoscale, and surface phenomena that were previously difficult to study. (more…)