A UW-Eau Claire nursing student is helping make science labs more accessible for students with disabilities after advocating for a new microscope. Kira Schoff, a ...

When designing microscopes, optical engineers have long faced a trade-off between speed, field of view and resolution. But ...

Three years after a team of Caltech scientists showed that pairs of entangled photons could double the resolution of a light ...

Brookhaven Lab's new electron microscope delivers 200x sharper energy resolution, enabling simultaneous atomic analysis of ...

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Bioengineer Manu Prakash and his team at Stanford University have designed a light microscope that not only fits in your pocket but costs less than a dollar to make. "So the starting material looks ...

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Life is pretty interesting, and at the microscopic scale, it can also be beautiful, strange, intriguing, frightening and gross. The winning photos and videos from this year's Olympus BioScapes ...

Microscope kits may invoke a sweet nostalgia for many adults today, but future generations of children in science classes may enjoy an entirely different microscopy experience. A research team at ...

All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission. This microscope toy is ...

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but the inverse is also true: A word is worth a thousand pictures. If I say “bear,” you might picture a grizzly or a black bear, a polar bear, a panda bear, a ...