Eight-year-old S. Hariraj is a Foldscope devotee. He's used it to look at the milk from the cows his parents raise. Though the milk looks creamy, the Foldscope reveals a world of microorganisms. "It ...

This fingertip-size microscope—which weighs a half-gram (0.02 oz.) and easily attaches to any smartphone camera lens with a nano suction pad—magnifies small objects up to 200 times. According to ...

Engineers at Stanford University have developed a high-efficiency, battery/solar-operated, autonomous microscope with ...

The invention that first enabled researchers to see clear images of living cells was the phase-contrast microscope, which won its inventor, Frits Zernike, a Nobel Prize in 1932. Prior to Zernike's ...