Here, we used forward pyro-EHD ink-jet printing to deliver polymer lenses to the chip surface to fully functionalize the commercial LoC and to obtain a holographic microscope slide. A sketch of ...

Microscopes became cheaper, and a popular form of entertainment. Viewers peered through them at specimens they'd collected themselves or slides prepared professionally. The image above shows an ...

In the mid- to late-1800s, microscopes were not only instruments of scientific discovery, they were tools for popular entertainment, particularly in Britain. And an industry of inventive slide ...

[Nature Under Glass: Gallery of Victorian Microscope Slides] One of the strangest slides in collector Howard Lynk's collection contains three innocuous-looking brown hairs, which came from the ...

A new high-tech microscope slide, however, boosts that figure to 40 nanometers. Developed by scientists at the University of California-San Diego, the slide is coated with a "hyperbolic ...

One round of 11 cm. diameter paper will provide a useful number of dye-papers which can be stapled together in the form of a booklet, with a plain paper cover. The dye-papers do not stain dry ...

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 ...

Heron-Allen and Earland, for their part, arranged and catalogued specimens, including many new species, on hundreds of slides ... that would be visible under a microscope. One from 1912 has ...

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.

The humble glass microscope slide may be primed for a makeover. A study published online May 2 in the journal Nature Communications describes how an updated version of this centuries-old tool can now ...