Discover how to transform a basic webcam into a powerful DIY microscope using simple materials. In this step-by-step tutorial ...

Smartphone cameras are getting more advanced all the time, but now a DIY fan has revealed how crafty iPhone owners can make a microscope for their handset for under $10. Using a block of wood, some ...

Take a smartphone, add $10 worth of plywood and Plexiglas, a bit of hardware, laser pointer lenses and LED click lights from a keychain flashlight and you have a DIY microscope worthy of use in ...

Some people start down their career path at a young age, and toys can often be the catalyst. To entice kids into the field of microbiology, scientists at Stanford have developed a DIY smartphone ...

LONDON, Nov. 25 (UPI) --An inverted microscope, a high-tech tool used in science labs at research centers all over the world, can cost upwards of $10,000. But when researchers at Brunel University ...

[Robert Murray-Smith] wanted to recreate how some ancient microscopes worked: with a drop of water as a lens. The idea is that the meniscus of a drop of water will work as a lens. This works because ...

A hacked DIY microscope developed by a PhD student has fascinated research scientists who say his design can equal the process of current diagnosis of serious illnesses but at a fraction of the cost.

Microbiology might not be everyone's idea of fun, but a new DIY project from Stanford University aims to bring ‘playful interaction’ to the study of single-celled organisms. A bioengineer has ...

When this university student realised he would have to find £100,000 to buy a microscope – he didn’t panic. The huge expenditure could easily have brought Adam Lynch’s hopes of a biology PhD from ...