Inner Workings of the Immune System Filmed

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Forget what's number one at the box office this week. The most exciting new film features the intricate workings of the body, filmed by scientists using ground-breaking technology.

For the first time in Australia, scientists at Sydney's Centenary Institute have filmed an immune cell becoming infected by a parasite and followed the infection as it begins to spread throughout the body

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Visible Light Enters the Bizarro World

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They're still a ways off, but invisibility cloaks and microscopes with superresolution could now be a big step closer to reality thanks to a pair of results to be reported this week. For eight years, physicists and engineers have tinkered with metamaterials, patterned arrays of bits of metal and insulator that bend and manipulate microwaves and shorter wavelength radiation in strange ways. Now, a team has made three-dimensional miniaturized metamaterials that work with near-infrared and visible light. That's a key step toward superlenses and cloaks for visible light, some say

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Abbe Limit under attack.

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For over a century, the Abbe Limit was considered to be a physical law. It's clear now that the ultimate resolution of a basic light microscope was never defined by the Abbe Limit and that the true resolution limit of a basic light microscope is far greater than what Abbe claimed. Why won't manufacturers produce microscopes that offer the full resolution capabilities?

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