How do organic solar cells work on the inside? The answer lies in structures far too small to see—and difficult to access ...

Eight-year-old S. Hariraj is a Foldscope devotee. He's used it to look at the milk from the cows his parents raise. Though the milk looks creamy, the Foldscope reveals a world of microorganisms. "It ...

Researchers have shown that expensive aberration-corrected microscopes are no longer required to achieve record-breaking microscopic resolution. Researchers at the University of Illinois at ...

With a new microscope that's as light as a penny, researchers can now observe broad swaths of the brain in action as mice move about and interact with their environments. As a mouse explores its ...

Students at Eden School in northern India prepare specimens they've collected to examine in the Foldscope. The paper microscope, invented a decade ago, is given for free for schools in lower resource ...