What do you get when you cross a day job as a Medical Histopathologist with an interest in 3D printing and programming? You get a fully-baked Open Source microscope ...

Modern microscopes used for biological imaging are expensive, are located in specialized laboratories and require highly qualified staff. To research novel, creative approaches to address urgent ...

As space agencies prepare for human missions to the moon and Mars, scientists need to understand how the absence of gravity ...

Researchers have developed an open-source microscope that can track a freely swimming zebrafish while also imaging fluorescently labeled cells in its brain. Credit: Barth van Rossum Discerning the ...

"Our dream was to invent a window into the brain, so we could see what happens inside when we’re thinking, planning, feeling, and remembering,” says Professor May-Britt Moser, describing conversations ...

A team of researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel has developed a new multiphoton microscopy tool, known as Pysight, for rapid 2D and 3D imaging of the brain and other tissues. Among other things ...

At the risk of putting too fine a point on it, Hackaday exists because people are out there building and documenting open source gadgets. If the person who built a particular gizmo is willing to show ...

Many of us can relate to characters in films or fiction; Jason Swedlow sees himself in the stick figures of the online comic strip xkcd. In a strip published in 2011, cartoonist Randall Munroe pokes ...

Micropalaeontologist Martin Tetard has been developing a Raspberry Pi microscope aptly named the microscoPI. The Raspberry Pi based microscope can capture, process, and store images and image analysis ...

Researchers have developed an optical toolbox to build microscopes for a few hundred euros that deliver high-resolution images comparable to commercial microscopes that cost up to a thousand times ...