State-of-the-art atomic force microscopes (AFMs) are designed to capture images of structures as small as a fraction of a nanometer—a million times smaller than the width of a human hair. In recent ...
The winner of Nikon's 2026 Small World In Motion contest said he used AI to post-process real video. Reading time 3 minutes Japanese optics company Nikon has stated it is “carefully re-reviewing” ...
The first-place winner of the 2025 Nikon Small World in Motion Video Competition captures a self-pollinating flower. Jay McClellan via Nikon Small World in Motion Video Competition Nikon has revealed ...
After much controversy, the winner of the Nikon Small World’s 2026 Small World in Motion has been officially disqualified after it was deemed that the video broke its rules on generative AI. Nikon’s ...
Nikon is reviewing a competition-winning video that some people suspect of being made with AI.
The first deep-learning software was developed as a versatile tool for tracking cells and extracting their signals from ~100 cells in a moving worm brain, in a zebrafish heart, and ~1,000 cultured ...
It's tough to capture the world's tiniest organisms in photos, but it's even tougher to capture footage of them in action. After awarding the best microscope photography of 2019, Nikon has revealed ...