Microscopic algae, such as diatoms, can be picked up from virtually anywhere there is water – including seas, soils and even moist surfaces such as exposed rocks. While diatoms traditionally have been ...

Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) has been an important tool for forensic science since the 1970s, and it continues to find forensic applications today. The technique – capable of 100,000x ...

For James Jabbour, who has worked in law enforcement for 24 years, investigating sexual assaults, murders and robberies is all in a day's work. And when the police inspector teaches his Ex College ...

From left, Rhyan Carnes shows a slide to Layne Gano, both 16-years-old, using the new microscopes. Phillips 66 donated $10,000 to OCTECHS to purchase 16 microscopes and a rolling microscope storage ...

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On a cold, dark and rainy Thursday afternoon, two high schoolers - 16-year-old Ozzy Paulus and 17-year-old Jacob Nation - walked on a path behind the Harrison Bay Future Ready Center. There, they were ...