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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

transformed this microscope into an educator's dream tool. We loved being able to demonstrate how to prepare a cell slide, then use the digital LCD screen to talk through what could be seen during ...

It offers up to 200-times magnification, and comes with a reusable slide and a reusable tray for your child’s scientific pursuits. But surprisingly, “it’s a real, working microscope” isn ...

For instance, if your slide has a blood droplet on it, you’ll be able to see red blood cells using the microscope. The higher the magnification, the more detail students see while examining ...

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 ...