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Want a microscope to attach to your smart phone? If you have access to a three-dimensional printer, you can make one using materials costing pennies and design specifications Pacific Northwest ...

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 ...

Scientists in the US and Israel have demonstrated an atomic force microscope that can take images of periodic processes with a time resolution of microseconds. This is an order of magnitude faster ...

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 ...

Some of the most powerful microscopic techniques allow biochemists to analyze single molecules inside cells or in solution. A new 3-D-printed microscope can perform these single-molecule measurements ...

A new microscopy technique allows scientists to see single-atom-thick boron nitride by making it glow under infrared light.

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 ...

BOSTON - You're a master of the perfect porcelain veneer, the artful crown, the smooth-as-silk filling. Think again. Look at your work under a microscope and you'll find holes in your restoration you ...

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 ...