If you decide to power your microscope with sunlight, you’ll need to direct these rays to the condenser lens and then through the slide specimen. This requires a solar reflector. To make it easy ...

This can alter the properties of the sample and lead to misdiagnosis, but scientists at Australia's La Trobe University have been developing a new microscope slide that sidesteps this issue ...

Take a piece of white paper and place it on top of a flashlight. Then, cut a small strip of plastic to make a microscope slide, and place that on top of the paper. This particular piece of plastic ...

Developed by Dr. Steve Lee, the process begins with a drop of a gel-like silicone polymer known as polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) being placed on a glass microscope slide. That drop is then baked on ...

they put it onto a slide," said Lynk, a collector who owns and curates the website Victorian Microscope Slides. But his collection contains much more than oddities. Slides like those containing a ...

The microscope slide containing the diatom indicates it was collected in Maryland and made by someone identified only as "FM," according to the slide's owner Howard Lynk, an antique slide ...

Pop a cover slip on the slide and then put the slide onto the microscope. Take a look! Check out that strong cell wall structure. It's solid so that it keeps a plant's shape and structure.

A composite image of a section of cat tongue plated on a microscope slide, dating back to the 1890s. The yellow streaks are horizontal muscles, the sparse purple streaks are vertical muscles, and the ...

The Museum has around 2.5 million microscope slides in its collections, which are either vertically or horizontally stored. The Digital Collections Programme has developed a slide digitisation ...