Ground-breaking Research

I was reading something very interesting in the “Scientific American” magazine today, where a group of researchers collaborated to write a journal article detailing the emergence of a new microscope that they were in the process of inventing. Being a science geek, I was quite excited to discover that in the span of a few years, we’d be moving on from the compound microscope of Robert Hooke (used to examine an environment teeming with cell-life) to something that magnifies, amplifies and pixellates cells to show movement relative to time.