The Foldscope brings a powerful science tool to schools that can't afford microscopes. Scientists use it too. Its creators ...

Fitting a microscope in your pocket is generally a bit of a challenge, unless that microscope is the iMicro Q3p. The latest ...

Six years on from the first iMicro smartphone microscope, the team has unveiled its latest: the iMicro Q3p, a fingertip-sized ...

Condenser lenses are higher-power objective lenses that increase illumination and resolution. These microscope lenses and objectives have very small diameters and are mounted at or below the focusing ...

Here’s an oldie but a goodie. [RunnerPack] stumbled upon an article from 2001 about building a stereo microscope from a pair of binoculars and a camera lens. With a ring light attached to the ...

Huygenian Huygens eyepieces are constructed of two plano-convex lenses with both plane sides facing the eye. Periplan Periplan eyepieces are constructed of one achromatic doublet and two plano-convex ...

If you want to take pictures of tiny things close up, you need a macro lens. Or a microscope. [Nicholas Sherlock] thought “Why not both?” He designed a 3D-printed microscope lens adapter that ...

A ultrasound technique from the University of Nottingham will allow the production of sharper images inside live cells ...

Researchers in Canada have pioneered a novel 3D printing technique known as blurred tomography, enabling the swift production of microlenses with optical quality comparable to commercial standards.

A simple microscope is equipped with one lens but a compound microscope has both an eyepiece and an objective lens. There are also different features to consider like the field of view ...

iMicro Q3p is a fingertip-sized microscope lens Attaches to your smartphone camera for 1200x magnification It's now available to back on Kickstarter for as little as CA$55 Fitting a microscope in ...