A microscope that cost less than £50 and took under 3 hours to build using a common 3D printer could be transformative for ...

A new microscopic imaging system is revealing a never-before-seen view of the underwater world. Researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego have ...

A new microscope developed by the TEAM Project (Transmission Electron Aberration-corrected Microscope), supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, has recorded the highest-resolution images ever seen ...

The first of two advanced microscopes has been installed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. TEAM 0.5 is the world's most powerful transmission electron microscope and is capable of producing ...

Physicists have created the world’s fastest microscope, and it’s so quick that it can spot electrons in motion. The new device, a newer version of a transmission electron microscope, captures images ...

Microscopes quite literally gave us a whole new way of looking at the world, and now you can bring that power anywhere with this portable one. It only weighs half a pound, and it's far easier to use ...

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory made a big leap in their research into all things small. Within the past few months, scientists there began using what they say is the world’s most ...

When the Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek first demonstrated the potential of the microscope in the 17th century, medicine was without vaccination, anaesthetic or antiseptic. Three centuries ...

Making use of novel lensless imaging technology, a UCLA engineer has invented the world’s smallest, lightest telemedicine microscope. The self-contained device could radically transform global health ...

Manu Prakash considers himself lucky. Not because he won a 2016 MacArthur award for his creative inventions, but because his life could have easily turned out differently. Growing up in India, Prakash ...

A miniature crystal castle of golden rutile quartz. The dark phosphorescent armor of a blue-black weevil. Slime molds growing spores that look like rich caramel apples. An otherworldly alien pineapple ...

A tiny microscope that attaches to a cell phone could save lives around the world by detecting deadly diseases. The LUCAS (Lenseless Ultra-wide-field Cell monitoring Array platform based on Shadow ...