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 ...

He wound up using a USB microscope to place and solder these tiny parts, and we’re thinking his SMD soldering station is the bee’s knees. [techpawpanda]’s video-based SMD station is built ...

Discover a microscopic world with one of the best microscopes for students and young scientists, without emptying your wallet — here are our top picks. Below is an overview of the very best ...

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A hybrid microscope, born at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), for the first time allows scientists to simultaneously image the full 3D orientation and position of an ensemble of molecules, such ...

A confocal microscope is a kind of fluorescent microscope used to obtain high-quality 2D and 3D images. The device is most commonly used to view cells and cell structures, but can be used to ...

Originally the AFM was used to image the topography of surfaces ... over 500 patents were issued related to various forms of scanning probe microscopes (SPM); several dozen companies are involved in ...

Researchers have invented an entirely new field of microscopy -- nuclear spin microscopy. The team can visualize magnetic signals of nuclear magnetic resonance with a microscope. Quantum sensors ...