At its heart stands a massive and powerful electron microscope that images samples frozen to -196C.
Motivation: Automated fluorescence microscopes produce massive amounts of images observing cells, often in four dimensions of space and time.
At the conference, the 31-year-old singer and mother to a 3-year-old son, admits she believes women are "definitely under a microscope and under massive scrutiny," but Aguilera says that she's "very confident" with her body.
The Department of Veterans Affairs' massive network of hospitals and clinics has been under a microscope since scandalously long waiting lists and allegations of cover-ups burst into public.
Palmer, who usually researches diminutive lymphocytes in a biology lab, has traded his microscope for binoculars in order to search the seas for massive leviathans.
First came a small rally and press conference in front of Charity Hospital of Louisiana, a massive granite edifice downtown that features the name in Art Deco lettering and bas-reliefs of scientists peering into microscopes and holding beakers aloft to the light of the god Science.
Petrographically marbles are massive rather than thin-layered and consist of a mosaic of calcite grains that rarely show any traces of crystalline form under the microscope.
