Grab your lab coat, or at least pretend you have one, and prepare to zoom way, way in because we’re about to explore a world ...

There are now various attachments that allow you to capture microscope-scale images with your smartphone. Unfortunately, however, the limitations of the phone's lens and image sensor mean that those ...

The science of small just got a lot bigger at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with the arrival of the world’s most powerful microscope. The new $27 million microscope has a resolution of half of ...

Dr. Steven Finkbeiner's microscope is one of a kind. It occupies a small room -- the size of a large closet -- down a hallway humming with refrigerators, freezers and centrifuges at the new laboratory ...

An image of a blood smear taken using the smartphone microscope attachment (L) is run through the deep learning algorithm (C) to produce a result similar to that taken by a high-end lab microscope (R) ...

Using a microscope invented at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), a collaborative team of biologists, instrument developers, and computational scientists has for the first time measured the ...

Open-science hardware offers unprecedented technological access to researchers and enthusiasts all over the globe. Richard Bowman and Julian Stirling of the Bath Open Instrumentation Group describe ...

1) Microscope slides and coverglass are used in many parts of the lab while knowledge of how these items are made and the technical properties they have is limited. 2) By not understanding the ...

Germany’s Max Planck Society and the microscope maker Leica Microsystems have joined forces to commercialize a new technique to allow optical microscopes to look at even smaller objects than was ...

New research shows that a portable, battery-operated fluorescence microscope, which costs $240, stacks up nicely against devices that retail for as much as $40,000 in diagnosing signs of tuberculosis.