Continually increasing the magnification past a certain point does not increase the detail visible in an image. The most important property of a microscope is its resolution - the ability to show ...

Six years on from the first iMicro smartphone microscope, the team has unveiled its latest: the iMicro Q3p, a fingertip-sized ...

1800s - the optical quality of lenses increased and the microscopes are similar to the ones we use today. Throughout their development, the magnification of light microscopes has increased ...