With nothing more than a smartphone and less than $10 of trinkets and hardware supplies, students can build their own microscopes. The DIY microscopes can magnify samples up to 175 times with a single ...

Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) was the first person to make and use a real microscope. He was able to utilize 550 different lenses in order to produce a lens tube that could view objects that were ...

We know that the process of viral uptake into cells begins with interactions between proteins hemagglutinin and neuraminidase ...

In order to map one of the world’s largest viruses, scientists took a DIY approach to build a retrofitted cryo-electron microscope. “If the common cold virus is scaled to the size of a ladder, then ...

With the new 3-D printed, easily assembled smartphone microscope developed at Stanford University, microbiology can now be turned into game time. The device allows kids to play games or make more ...

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 ...

Microbiologists don't use microscopes very often. The reason is because a substantial proportion of modern microbiology research uses the tools of molecular biology, for which microscopes are not ...

PALO ALTO (Reuters) - Playing classic video games like Pac-Man with living single-celled microbes thinner than a human hair is now possible thanks to an interactive microscope developed by ...

Leiden researchers can now visualize the connections between brain cells. Their microscopy technique could significantly advance the human quest to understand brain functions. The study is published ...

The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas reached its closest point to the sun. Here's how to follow the rest of its journey away from our solar system. In Orbit You Have to Slow Down to Speed Up Driving a ...