If you are looking for a small compact digital microscope capable of providing 500x magnification, you might be interested in the Laboray. Launched via Kickstarter this month campaigners already ...

If you would like to explore the world that is normally hidden around you viewing specimens and more using a 9 inch touchscreen display you may be interested in a new microscope offering 4K, 1600x ...

When I was younger, I spent a lot of time collecting things around the house and using a microscope to examine them. While I had a lot of fun examining things, the one thing that was lacking was the ...

Six years on from the first iMicro smartphone microscope, the team has unveiled its latest: the iMicro Q3p, a fingertip-sized, lightweight device that makes microscopy inexpensive, portable and ...

Today we're looking at Atomic Force Microscopy! I built a "macro-AFM" to demonstrate the principles of an atomic force microscope, then we look at a real AFM (an nGauge AFM from ICSPI) and do a few ...

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In the late 17th century, a Dutch draper and self-taught scientist named Antonie van Leeuwenhoek earned renown for building some of the best microscopes available at a time when the instrument was ...