A School's Online Microscope Project Spans 2,400 Miles
Amid the
fish tanks and black lab tables in Melanie Fields' biology classroom, a
video camera perched on the eyepiece of a microscope strikes a note of
modernity. A cable transmits the camera's view of the
specimen—showing the brain of a zebrafish, magnified by 40
times—to a wall-mounted television.
A microscope of another order of magnitude is also available to Ms. Fields' students at the private, 1,093-student Sidwell Friends School here, although at a distance of 2,400 miles.
Aviel Ginzburg, 18, seated at a 20-inch monitor at the front of the Sidwell lab one day last week, is using the Internet to operate a 400,000-volt transmission electron microscope at the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, located at the University...
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