Calibration is the process of adjusting and verifying that an instrument, for example, an optical microscope, is taking measurements accurately by comparing them to a known measurement standard or ...

Nanotechnology researchers at UC Davis have shown that they can use a red blood cell to calibrate a sensitive instrument, an atomic force microscope. "It turns around the rules of nanotechnology, by ...

Measuring the volume, motion and contents of microscopic droplets is important for studying how airborne viruses spread (including those that cause Covid-19), how clouds reflect sunlight to cool the ...