I used to have access to some pretty nice Scanning Electron Microscopes (a SEM) at my day job. While they are a bit more complex than a 3D printer, they are awfully handy when you need them.

When you’ve got a scanning electron microscope sitting around, you’re going to find ways to push the awesome envelope. [Ben Krasnow] is upping his SEM game with a new rig to improve image ...

Scanning transmission electron microscopy experiments have uncovered the structural changes a ruthenium catalyst undergoes ...

SEM stands for scanning electron microscope. The SEM is a microscope that uses electrons instead of light to form an image. Since their development in the early 1950's, scanning electron microscopes ...

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Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

Scientists have discovered a unique sequence of minerals that formed from evaporated water in samples from Bennu.

The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...

Scientists have detected amino acids and complex mineral compounds in NASA's asteroid Bennu rocks, some never seen before in ...

Today we are machining some metal inside the scanning electron microscope! By creating a custom fixture, we can manually ...

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...