We can use microscopes to look at objects too small to be seen by the naked eye. The microscope in the picture is a light microscope. It uses focused light passed through the object and two lenses ...

The wand-like device is made by Gelsight, and instead of an optical lens like a normal microscope, it sports a gel pad on the sensing end. By squashing an object into the gel, the device is able ...

The museum has a magnificent collection of microscopes ... his Tail out of the Light" (John Harris's, Lexicon Technicum ... (London, 1704)). Comments are closed for this object What's this?

But light microscopes have a limit. Any object that's smaller than the wavelength ... This is a leaf surface under a scanning electron microscope. Both types of electron microscopes make black ...

Having a portable microscope was invaluable for this as well, as we could minimize the amount of time that creatures were out of their natural environment and under light. It also gave us the ...