Everyone knows the rise of smartphones has put powerful cameras in our pockets, but we forget these cameras can also be transformed into powerful microscopes. Enter DIPLE, a Kickstarter that promises ...
A complete, ready-to-teach lesson introducing microscopes — why we need them, the difference between magnification and resolution, and the key physical parts of a light microscope. Builds directly on ...
A compound microscope uses two lens systems in series — an objective that forms a magnified real image, and an eyepiece that magnifies that image again — which is what separates it from a simple ...
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 ...
It’s relatively easy to understand how optical microscopes work at low magnifications: one lens magnifies an image, the next magnifies the already-magnified image, and so on until it reaches the eye ...
IntroductionThe edges of a grain of sand, the indentations on a seed, the fine veins remaining on a fallen leaf. If you find ...
Smart Micro Optics based in Genoa, Italy have created a new smartphone microscope that can be used with any smartphone or tablet device to provide a detailed closer look at the world around you. DIPLE ...
Digital microscopes are a step ahead of conventional microscopes. They allow you to observe your specimen on a larger screen instead of the eyepiece. Digital microscopes have become widely popular in ...