Lego artist Carl Merriman has built a fully functional compound microscope out of Lego bricks. A clever use of magnifying glasses, adjustable knobs, and LEDs gives the LEGO Microscope MkII its 10x ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. CHRIS UHLMANN: Two Americans and a German have taken out the Nobel prize for chemistry for developing a ...

CellScope, a microscope camera made by pairing a cell phone and a special lens, is now powerful enough to capture images of bacteria labeled with fluorescent markers. Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers in the United States and Spain have discovered that a tool widely used in nanoscale imaging works differently in watery environments, a step toward better using the ...

A video demonstrating how the atomic force microscope (AFM) works and how the AFM is use to to look closer into the structures of nanomaterials.

Researchers at the University of Sheffield have created what sounds impossible - even nonsensical: an experimental electron microscope without lenses that not only works, but is orders of magnitude ...

A small startup in the Bay Area is working on a development which could revolutionize scientific research: Cheap, smartphone-based microscope systems which leverage the phone’s camera to magnify up to ...

Portland, Or.-based Mac peripheral maker and distributor Dr. Bott announced today that the ProScope, a USB-based microscope that works with PCs and Macs, will work with Mac OS X 10.2, “Jaguar.” The ...

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