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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 ...

To get a better look at brains, Harvard researchers are making microscopes work more like human eyes. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Until recently, the quest to ...

As space agencies prepare for human missions to the moon and Mars, scientists need to understand how the absence of gravity ...

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 ...

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 new imaging technique creates microscopic three-dimensional views of tissues within a patient’s body and can update those images several times a second. The technology could be a boon for guided ...

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 ...