Australian researchers found the world first scanning helium microscope. They expected this could be the milestone for many new discoveries to examine the materials without disturbing them. Paul Dastoor from the University of Newcastle has been working on scanning helium microscope (SHeM). These experiments are being done from two decades.

Scanning Helium Microscope has some specifies work to analyse the samples in their true state for the first time and every time a new microscope is developed with enormous scientific advances.

“We wouldn’t know anything about bacteria without the development of the optical microscope, we wouldn’t know anything about nanotechnology, without the development of the electron microscope. What exactly will the new helium microscope tell us? We don’t know yet. What will it open the doors to? We don’t know yet, but it will open doors” Dastoor added.

A team of researchers are led by Dastoor they are from the University of Newcastle scientists together working with England`s the University of Cambridge. He later said that the groundbreaking technology may help to find ways of removing carbon monoxide.

“The new device is expected to pave the way for many new discoveries because it gives new insight on structures at a microscopic level,” he said.

“Defence experts will be interested because it could lead to the development of stealth technology and new explosives,” Dastoor said.

“We work a lot with explosives you don’t want to put an explosive in an energetic microscope. We really think we’re opening a window onto a new scientific world,” he said.

“When you see the first image coming out on an instrument that you’ve only designed on paper, it’s certainly time for the happy dance. We are genuinely amazed at what this microscope can do,” he added.