Key points of this articleThe Nikon Model H is not just a small microscope. Reading the original English instruction manual ...

Clip-on lenses and wireless scopes now let a smartphone camera resolve textures and structures that used to require a lab bench. Instead of peering into a bulky eyepiece, I can hold a leaf, a circuit ...

It’s relatively easy to understand how optical microscopes work at low magnifications: one lens magnifies an image, the next magnifies the already-magnified image, and so on until it reaches the eye ...

Physicists at the University of Regensburg have found a way to manipulate the quantum state of individual electrons using a microscope with atomic resolution. The results of the study have now been ...