Instead of buying one outright, they purchased a cheap microscope and upgraded it to do the job instead. Usability and performance is greatly improved over the stock unit, which was really only ...

[Aj] found this great article for building a really cheap microscope. The goal of the project is to construct a compound microscope that is superior to the cheap toy/children’s microscopes.

We've got a feast for your eyes today, and it's some of the most mesmerizing footage we've seen through a microscope this year.

Gravitational lenses bend and focus light from the more distant cosmos, offering astronomers a cheat code for chronicling the ...

Now physicists at the University of Arizona have developed the world’s fastest electron microscope to capture events lasting just one quintillionth of a second. A good camera, with a shutter ...

"This transmission electron microscope is like a very powerful camera in the latest version of smart phones; it allows us to take pictures of things we were not able to see before -- like electrons.

Purdy still hasn't entirely shaken the "system" quarterback label and other denigrations. A chance for his rebuttal is now ...

In new and exciting fields like artificial intelligence (AI), it can be difficult to separate the good from the bad. From ...

Purdy still hasn't entirely shaken the "system" quarterback label and other denigrations. A chance for his rebuttal is now ...

Throughout their development, the magnification of light microscopes has increased, but very high magnifications are not possible. The maximum magnification with a light microscope is around ×1500.

To use a light microscope to examine animal or plant cells. To make observations and draw scale diagrams of cells. Turn the coarse focus so that the stage is as close to the objective lens as ...