GAIA is a scanning transmission electron microscope with a built-in system to cool samples to ultra-low temperatures with liquid helium. Credit: Cameron Johnson When it comes to imaging materials, the colder the sample is, the better. At room temperature, atoms hum with thermal energy and appear blurry in images, but at ultra-cold temperatures, near absolute
Igby Rigney is exhausted. It’s a day before “The Shards” launches, and he’s just gotten back from Berlin, the final stop of a global press tour that also took him to New York and London. When the series debuts on FX on Aug. 5, he’ll be celebrating at the official launch party at a roller
