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New helium microscope reveals startling details without frying the sample

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageA butterfly's wing viewed through an optical microscope (left) and the scanning helium microscope (right).University of Newcastle

When using an electron microscope, having your samples fried or explode isn’t quite the result one wants.

But for Professor Paul Dastoor, this was an all-too-common problem. In his work on organic and polymer...

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Fear of death underlies most of our phobias

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imageSome people focus their fear of death on smaller and more manageable threats.Pimthida/Flickr, CC BY

This is the first in our Coping with Mortality series, which looks at our fear of death across the ages and how to cope with the dying process. Tomorrow’s article is on helping children process death.


Awareness of our mortality is part of being...

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