microscopes
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This Smartphone Microscope Lets You Play Games With Microbes
Introducing the LudusScope, a 3D-printed, open-sourced system that lets you control and play games with living microbes on your smartphone. Tormenting single-celled organisms has never been so much fun.
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A New Sensor Turns Old Microscopes Into Super-Resolution Devices
‘Image enhance’ just got a little more real, for microscopes at least. A team of researchers form UCLA has developed a new sensor and software that turns an optical microscope into a super-resolution imaging device.
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This 3D-Printed Smartphone Microscope Only Costs A Dollar
We’ve seen small smartphone microscopes before, but they’re either a bit shitty or a bit pricey — problems neatly solved in this edition of Stuff You Didn’t Realise You Could £-D Print.
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Genius Microscope Made From Folded Paper Could Help Fight Malaria
The light microscope changed science and medicine forever , but in the 400-plus years since it was invented, this crucial piece of equipment has gotten pretty expensive and fragile. Manu Prakash and his team have designed a brilliant solution — an origami microscope that costs less than 50 cents to make.