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The team also used the extreme localization of the narwhal-shaped wavefunctions to create a new near-field scanning optical microscopy technique called the singular optical microscope.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

Follow-up studies using additional methods, including optical microscopy, revealed that the interior of these tubes contains many ribosomes, the structures responsible for protein production.

From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2025

Confocal microscopy enhances images over conventional optical microscopy, especially for thicker specimens, and so has become quite popular.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Electron microscopy is able to resolve much smaller details than optical microscopy can manage, but because it must take place in a vacuum it cannot be used to study living samples.

From Economist • Oct. 9, 2014

“Their ground-breaking work has brought optical microscopy into the nanodimension,” the academy said.

From Washington Times • Oct. 8, 2014