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 ...

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 ...

Using visible wavelengths of light on the 400 – 700 nanometer (nm) range, the standard array of magnifying lenses in a compound microscope permits sample magnification by up to 1000x.

The team used a publicly available design from the website OpenFlexure to produce the microscope's frame, and clear plastic lenses they designed themselves that cost $0.13 / £0.11 AU$0.22 ...

Late 1600s – Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek constructed a microscope with a single spherical lens. It magnified up to ×275. 1800s - the optical quality of lenses increased and the ...

SURPRISINGLY little of the information obtained with microscopes has been quantitative ... The whole method of obtaining resolution by lenses involves so much loss of light, lack of control ...

She and her colleagues previously worked out how to 3D-print lenses like those used in microscopes, which led to the breakthrough. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox! We'll also keep ...