Professor Timo Betz is a biophysicist at the University of Göttingen in Germany. His name is found on widely cited research papers with serious-sounding titles like Neurite branch retraction is caused ...

We have all seen those cheap digital microscopes, whether in USB format or with its own screen, all of them promising super-clear images of everything from butterfly wings to electronics at amazing ...

The VHX-1000 digital microscope from Keyence integrates the optical properties and functionalities of stereoscopes, metallurgical microscopes, and measurement microscopes and thus functions as an ...

Thin enough to fit in your wallet, and with up to 100x magnification Thin enough to fit in your wallet, and with up to 100x magnification is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more ...

There’s a little trick you can do to capture macro photography shots on your smartphone, using nothing more than a drop of water. The idea is the water acts as a very rudimentary lens, which has a ...

Scientists at UCLA have created a lens-free microscope that relies on a silicon chip found in smartphones and digital cameras. You can’t use it to snap a selfie, but it could help scientists detect ...

The Nanjing University of Science and Technology has unveiled a lens-free digital holography microscope "Cyte-Live" that it says can achieve high precision and a large field of view at the same time.

San Francisco, CA, and Leuven, Belgium. At next week’s SPIE Photonics West 2016, imec will demonstrate a lens-free microscope for large field-of-view live imaging at micrometer resolution. imec’s ...

If you love building things — especially if you’re assembling something with a lot of small, delicate parts (i.e., a computer or a drone) — you might want to get a closer look at whatever it is you’re ...