When attached to a smartphone, the low-cost lens is easily able to magnify a worm crawling in the grass ANU Students from Australian National University (ANU) have developed a DIY lens maker that ...

From popularizing a feared subject to scaling down high-tech tools, here are two examples of experts solving complicated problems with simplicity. The online magazine Ozy covers people, places and ...

We swore off microscopes after getting one for our 10th birthday and seeing just how disgusting our skin was, but this cheap USB microscope seems to be kinda neat. Carlosb.tv shows you that you can ...

A British student has come up with a way to build a £100,000 microscope for less than £200. Adam Lynch, a PhD student from Brunel University London hacked together his own instrument to study cell ...

Black Friday is often a great time for holiday and Christmas shopping, particularly when it comes to buying gifts for kids. However, if you have budding young scientists on your hands, we think these ...

Left: Images of fluorescent particles that are above, at and below (top to bottom) the vertical position of best focus of a microscope. Calibrating the effects of lens aberrations on the apparent ...

A microscope that cost less than £50 and took under 3 hours to build using a common 3D printer could be transformative for ...

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