Howard Lynk / Victorian Microscope Slides . Nov. 7, 2011, 2:55 PM EST / Source: LiveScience. ... Brian Stevenson, a professor of microbiology at the University of Kentucky, ...

The DIY smartphone microscope that lets you play Pac-Man and soccer with microbes Small platform holds the microscope slide, where Euglena swim around These single-celled, light-seeking organisms ...

When placed in an observation chamber within a microscope slide, the microbes swam either up or down until they collided with the glass. But even then, they kept on swimming, like flies trying to ...

Building your own slides is a great way to get more from your microscope — here's how to make them Best microscopes for students 2025 The 5 biggest mistakes learner microscope owners make ...

The user's iPhone (4s or higher) sits on a platform above the microscope, which keeps the phone's camera lens aligned with the eyepiece. Users then just start snapping stills or recording video of ...

Here's a Kickstarter project that wants to use your smartphone to extend the powers of something else: a basic microscope -- allowing for real-time videos of microbes doing weird stuff to be ...

To entice kids into the field of microbiology, scientists at Stanford have developed a DIY smartphone microscope that lets users take a closer look at the microscopic world and allows microbes to ...

A NEW method of providing dyes for some of the commoner staining procedures has been developed and tested. A small volume of the required dye solution is prepared according to the appropriate formula.

Teachers—or anyone interested in a little DIY microbiology—can 3D print the parts to the microscope using downloadable plans. Students can then assemble the device themselves.

The first “microbe hunter” was Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch carpenter who knew how to cut glass and invented the best microscope available in the mid-1600s. With the microscope ...