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View Small Things On Your iPhone With This Microscope Mod

11:45AM October 11, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

UC-Davis researchers developed a lens that’ll turn your iPhone or any camera-enabled smartphone into a 350x microscope. The mod is a simple 1mm ball lens mounted in rubber that’s taped to your phone’s camera. It costs about $US40. More »

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Fascinatingly Small Images Give First-Ever Glimpse Of An Electron’s Orbit

7:00AM August 29, 2011 | Jack Loftus

It was only two years ago that IBM showed us an image of a complete molecule, atomic bonds and all, but today’s news does that one infinitesimally-sized breakthrough better. Ladies and gents, behold the first image of an electron’s path. More »

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Best Microscopic Images Of The Year Defy Belief Once Again

9:12AM August 3, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

This is not a photograph of the Grand Canyon. Or any other canyon on Earth. But it’s in our planet. It’s the winner of the 2011 edition of FEI’s electronic microscope image contest. More »

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Chocolate Cake Even Looks Delicious Under An Electronic Microscope

9:02AM July 20, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

When I see this beautiful gallery of food under the electronic microscope, all I can think about is: “I want a chocolate cake that big, so I can stuff my face and build a cave at the same time.” More »

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Gillette Is Writing Ads On Strands Of Hair With A Microscope

12:20PM June 11, 2011 | Kyle Wagner

Gillette took a step away from the “plaster ads on every surface in the civilised world” school of marketing to do something pretty cool. They rounded up a few doctors of electron microscopy and had them stick a whole ad on a strand of hair. More »

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This Microscope Can Detect Skin Cancer

1:40PM May 6, 2011 | Adrian Covert

Based on innovations from the last year, everything in the future will detect cancer. E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G. The latest to promise this ability is a microscope developed by the ever-innovative Fraunhofer Institute, capable of imaging a suspcious area of skin for melanomas. More »

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How To Turn Your iPhone Into A Microscope For Only $US10

3:00AM September 7, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

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These odd images were all taken using an iPhone cleverly equipped with a 45x microscope. The best part though? You can add such an upgrade to your own iPhone for about $US10. More »

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Microscope Reveals The US Government’s Teeniest Typo

11:40AM August 20, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

The folks over at Notcot were using a microscope to check out their old US Visa and Border Crossing Card, a document which features tiny portraits of every US president, when they noticed something strange. Who is John Quincy Adames? More »

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Delicious Alcoholic Cocktails Under The Microscope

7:20AM June 18, 2010 | Brian Barrett

See that? That’s a margarita magnified 1000 time under a high-tech microscope. And a company called Bevshots has produced a whole series of similar shots of booze at the molecular level. Can you spot your spirit of choice? More »

Microscope Connects To iPads Wirelessly For Extreme Close-Up Views

11:00PM June 9, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Designed for the beauty and education industries, this microscope peripheral can connect to iPads wirelessly, displaying video and images of skin (or whatever else you shove under the microscope) zoomed up by 50 times. More »