The youngsters went out on to the common looking for natural things to study under the microscope and collected mosses, ...

The most common microscopes in schools and universities are compound, stereo (binocular) and digital microscopes. These are the units we will focus on in this guide. Below is an overview of the ...

The world’s first fully 3D-printed microscope can be made in a few hours and for a fraction of the cost of traditional ones.

Researchers have designed and built the world’s first microscope made entirely from 3D-printed parts. And because the open-source plans are already available online, almost anyone can assemble ...

Stereo microscopes come in two configurations, Greenough and the common main objective (CMO) designs. The more-expensive CMO design uses a single objective, whereas Greenough microscopes use two.

In electronics work, the scanning electron microscope (SEM) is the most common. You hit something with electrons and watch for secondary electron emissions. However, biologists more often use a ...

[Dusjagr] has another take on building a laser projection microscope. Last year we saw a laser-based microscope that shined the beam of light through a water droplet which contained the subject to ...