The home-made microscope was created for under $10 by a DIY fan in Iowa, who says it is powerful enough to take photos of the nuclei of plant cells.

Now, for no other reason than wanting a real challenge, the 28-year-old engineer picked the toughest DIY project he could imagine: a homemade scanning electron microscope, or SEM. "I wanted to see ...

Ten steps to a DIY microscope Building a microscope is complicated, but Philipp Keller, a physicist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, has ...

DIY hardware, such as this 3D-printed fluorescence microscope, is bringing cutting-edge research and diagnostics to resource-limited areas. Credit: Stuart Robinson/Univ. Sussex ...

A creative science fan made a DIY microscope using an old phone and a glue stick. Footage shows the man demonstrating how to adjust the homemade science experiment tool in his home in Heilongjiang ...

When this university student realised he would have to find £100,000 to buy a microscope – he didn’t panic. The huge expenditure could easily have brought Adam Lynch’s hopes of a biology ...

German scientists have built a high resolution microscope out of Lego parts and components salvaged from a mobile phone, according to a recent paper published in The Biophysicist. They found that ...

A hacked DIY microscope developed by a PhD student has fascinated research scientists who say his design can equal the process of current diagnosis of serious illnesses but at a fraction of the cost.

The DIY smartphone microscope that lets you play Pac-Man and soccer with microbes Small platform holds the microscope slide, where Euglena swim around These single-celled, light-seeking organisms ...