The Foldscope brings a powerful science tool to schools that can't afford microscopes. Scientists use it too. Its creators have handed out 2 million units, including a new mini-model for younger kids.

Beauty Beneath the Microscope's Lens Nikon's Small World contest showcases the beauty of life as photographed through a microscope. Here, the winners from 2009's contest.

The quantum twisting microscope: A new lens on quantum materials. Weizmann Institute of Science. Journal Nature DOI 10.1038/s41586-022-05685-y. Keywords ...

You’d be forgiven if you thought [Nicholas Sherlock’s] new lens design was a macro lens that was 3D printed. In fact, it is, but it is also a macro lens that takes 3D images using two d… ...

Nevertheless, lenses never exceeded much beyond the power of typical modern reading glasses until the early 1590s, when a Dutch lens maker named Hans Janssen built a microscope capable of 9X ...