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To Touch the Microcosmos: New Haptic Microscope Technique Allows Researchers to 'Feel' Microworld

Sep. 13, 2013 — What if you could reach through a microscope to touch and feel the microscopic structures under the lens? In a breakthrough that may usher in a new era in the exploration of the worlds that are a million times smaller than human beings, researchers at Université Pierre et Marie Curie in France have unveiled a new technique that allows microscope users to manipulate samples using a technology known as "haptic optical tweezers."