We have all seen those cheap digital microscopes, whether in USB format or with its own screen, all of them promising super-clear images of everything from butterfly wings to electronics at ...

[Birdbrain] is trying to make their own microfluidic devices. To aid in this quest, they need a quality microscope to see what they’re doing. Instead of buying one outright, they purchased a … ...

This article was originally published with the title “How to Make a Simple Dissecting Microscope” in SA Supplements Vol. 23 No. 585supp (March 1887), p. 9350 doi:10.1038 ...

A single lens can be used as a magnifying glass which increases the apparent size of an object when it is held close to the lens. Looking through the magnifying glass at the object, we see a magnified ...

They add that the crucial photonic substrate could be mass-produced with existing techniques, and that it could be integrated into even the most simple and compact optical microscopes. It might also ...

COVID-19 antibodies with fluorescent beads are added to a saliva sample. The antibodies attach to the virus, and under a microscope, show up on a smartphone photo as little glowing clumps.

This microscope possesses in its simple form two lenses only: one placed directly above the object to be magnified and taking from that cause its name, “objective; ” a second, the “eye-piece ...

New technology could make biopsies a thing of the past High-speed 3D microscope can see real-time cellular detail in living tissues to guide surgery, speed up tissue analyses, and improve ...