is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Everyone knows the rise of smartphones has put powerful cameras in our pockets, but we forget these cameras ...

An engineer at Stanford University has created a DIY microscope, called the Foldscope, that is fashioned out of a single piece of printed-and-folded A4 paper, origami-style. This paper-based ...

A British nanotech invention has revolutionized the humble optical microscope by quadrupling its magnification power to a level far beyond what could previously be achieved with visible light. The new ...

If you are looking for a small compact digital microscope capable of providing 500x magnification, you might be interested in the Laboray. Launched via Kickstarter this month campaigners already ...

Optical microscopy is a very useful technique to examine the appearance of a sample with greater detail, but there are some limitations that provide a boundary to its use in practice. Cross section of ...

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 ...