Volume 24


Numbe 1 Number


2016 January Januar


Ancient Life?


12 Solving the Controversy of Earth’s Oldest Fossils Using Electron Microscopy David Wacey, Martin Saunders, Charlie Kong, and Martin Brasier


Contents


18 Preservation of Triceratops horridus Tissue Cells from the Hell Creek Formation, MT Mark H. Armitage


Electron Microscopy


24 Enabling Lab-in-Gap Transmission Electron Microscopy at Atomic Resolution Xiao Feng Zhang


30 Why a Coffee Carafe Should Not Be Used in Cryogenic Applications Philip Bennewirtz and Michal Meissner


Meetings


34 Microscopy & Microanalysis 2015 Mark A. Sanders, Program Chair


38 Microscopy & Microanalysis 2016 in Columbus, Ohio Joseph R. Michael, Program Chair


About the Cover Pioneers


42 Aberrations, a Way of Life Peter Hawkes


Opinion


46 Seeing is Educating: The Case for Electron-Microscopy Videos in the Classroom Alyssa J. McKenna and David J. Flannigan


Reconstructed images of carbon-rich fi laments in a 3.46 billion-year-old rock. Image width = 30 µm


See article by Wacey et al. Departments


7 Editorial 8 Carmichael’s Concise Review


48 Industry News 50 Product News


52 NetNotes 60 Calendar of Meetings 65 Dear Abbe 66 Index of Advertisers


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