[Yoshinok] recently posted an Instructable on doing a $10 smartphone-to-microscope conversion. The hack isn’t so much a conversion as just a handy jig, but it’s still interesting. The basic idea is to ...

When I was younger, I spent a lot of time collecting things around the house and using a microscope to examine them. While I had a lot of fun examining things, the one thing that was lacking was the ...

Discover how to transform a basic webcam into a powerful DIY microscope using simple materials. In this step-by-step tutorial ...

Built with sturdy materials, yet manufactured economically, the AmScope M150C is portable and the PS25 version comes with a selection of prepared slides; a good choice for a beginner to use at home, ...

My yoga instructor said something recently that knocked me out. Not literally, of course. While describing quite specifically how we should be using our forearm muscles in a certain pose (that’s yoga ...

In this interview, Marcel Lucas talks to AZoM about the key benefits of using a digital microscope in comparison to other conventional models on the market. Olympus recently launched the DSX1000 ...

The first major benefit of confocal microscopes is the level of detail which can be achieved. With an already impressive horizontal resolution of 0.2 microns and vertical resolution of 0.5 confocal ...

For Yuksel Temiz, photographing extremely tiny subjects is just part of his job as a microelectronics engineer at IBM’s Zurich Research Laboratory. Temiz works on minuscule devices that use ...

Using a familiar tool in a way it was never intended to be used opens up a whole new method to explore materials, report researchers. They used the tip of an atomic force microscope as a chisel, and ...

A newly developed microscope is providing scientists with a greatly enhanced tool to study how neurological disorders such as epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease affect neuron communication. The ...