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.) ...

In the 1660s, Robert Hooke looked through a primitive microscope at a thinly cut piece of cork. He saw a series of walled boxes that reminded him of the tiny rooms, or cellula, occupied by monks.

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 ...

Shivangi Rao is a Scientific Officer in the Biology/DNA Division at the State Forensic Science Laboratory, Raipur, Chhattisgarh. She is also a Research Scholar in the Department of Forensic Science at ...

FOR many purposes, such as tracing networks of neural structure in the brain, a normal microscope has the serious limitation that only a thin layer of the specimen can be studied at one time, owing to ...