Although Antoni van Leeuwenhoek has rightly earned his reputation as the founder of microbiology and the maker of fine simple microscopes, it was a contemporaneous and largely unknown mid-17th-century ...

To that rude scientist in dim historic time who first acquired the knowledge of a simple lens, how strangely must have come the wizardry of magnifying-glass. Before his wondering eyes his hand was ...

If a microscope is defined as an instrument that enables the visualization of objects or structures that are usually invisible to the naked eye, then microscopes appeared at the end of the sixteenth ...

[Birdbrain] is trying to make their own microfluidic devices. To aid in this quest, they need a quality microscope to see what they’re doing. Instead of buying one outright, they purchased a cheap ...

Using tape, rubber and a tiny glass ball, researchers transformed an iPhone into a cheap, yet powerful microscope able to image tiny blood cells. They’ve also added a clinical-grade cellphone ...

MR. BECK has in this little book collected and set out in elementary form a considerable amount of information useful to the microscopist. The optics of the instrument are described in a simple manner ...

A new concept combining the versatility of a stereo with the resolution of a compound microscope has been launched by Nikon Instruments. Called the AZ100 Multizoom, it offers the wide field of view ...

A compact, low cost, optical trapping microscope has been developed by scientists at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK by adapting a standard optical microscope using a laser diode. The ...

Small modifications to an ordinary optical microscope have helped turn it into a powerful instrument that can be used for studying complex cellular biology in real time at the nanoscale level. And ...

[Amen] obtained a microscope whose light source was an incandescent bulb, but the light from it seemed awfully dim even at its brightest setting. Rather than hunt down a replacement, he decided to ...

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