What is Total Internal Reflection? The phenomenon happens when a boundary layer is separating two media of different optical densities and light travels from an optically denser medium to a rarer ...

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Total internal reflection fluorescence (usually abbreviated as TIRF) microscopy is an imaging method that illuminates fluorescence in a shallow area of the specimen in order to enhance the signal ...

Shoe in: total internal reflection reveals a shoeprint. (Courtesy: James Sharp) “There is no branch of detective science that is so important and so much neglected as the art of tracing footsteps,” ...

David N. Bowser, Baljit S. Khakh, Two Forms of Single-Vesicle Astrocyte Exocytosis Imaged with Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the ...

Cool operator: the Saharan silver ant Cataglyphis bombycina. (Courtesy: P Landmann) A species of desert-dwelling ant is able to tolerate temperatures exceeding 50 °C because its body hairs act like ...