In 2011, while waiting for his new lab to be built at Stanford University, bioengineer Manu Prakash traveled to labs around the world, including in his home country of India. When he came across ...

The Moon our satellite companion that illuminates our path during the night on a telescope detailed view with the Lunar craters and seas. An amazing space scene on our lovely Solar System Part of what ...

Recently, I tried to make a Leeuwenhoek style magnifying glass/microscope by drawing a bit of glass tubing into a ball using a propane torch (along the lines of the project in Make Magazine Vol 20.) ...

New microscopes are revealing sights that have never been seen before. Nature profiles five machines that are changing how biologists view the world. Close-ups of cork, lice and fly's eyes do not ...

Question from Nora in Ms. Fitzpatrick’s class. A microscope is an instrument that lets you magnify and see really small things that you cannot distinguish with your naked eye. The earliest microscopes ...

[Robert Murray-Smith] wanted to recreate how some ancient microscopes worked: with a drop of water as a lens. The idea is that the meniscus of a drop of water will work as a lens. This works because ...