There are now various attachments that allow you to capture microscope-scale images with your smartphone. Unfortunately, however, the limitations of the phone's lens and image sensor mean that those ...

That’s why a concept known as Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) has recently begun spreading through the chemical ...

Open-science hardware offers unprecedented technological access to researchers and enthusiasts all over the globe. Richard Bowman and Julian Stirling of the Bath Open Instrumentation Group describe ...

Even when cancer surgery goes well, it’s far from guaranteed that all the cancer has been removed. The excised tumor is sent to a pathology lab, which analyzes it under a microscope to estimate how ...

To my fellow geeks who've long dreamed of having a lab-quality digital microscope that mounts to your phone, the time has come. Oregon-based optics manufacturer Bodelin will begin shipping its ...