The Micro Phone Lens can turn any smartphone or tablet computer into a hand-held microscope. The soft, pliable lens sticks to a device's camera without any adhesive or glue and makes it possible to ...

Researchers have created an optical lens that can be placed on an inexpensive smartphone to magnify images by a magnitude of 120, all for just 3 cents a lens. Researchers at the University of Houston ...

The Nanjing University of Science and Technology has unveiled a lens-free digital holography microscope "Cyte-Live" that it says can achieve high precision and a large field of view at the same time.

Sure, you could just buy one of the many, more capable, ready-made, USB microscopes, but if you're lacking for geek cred, you can also build your own with nothing more than a webcam and a lens ...

(Nanowerk News) UCLA researchers have redefined the concept of a microscope by removing the lens to create a system that is small enough to fit in the palm of a hand but powerful enough to create ...

Considering the versatility of the microscopes available today, it's surprising that more people don't own one. They're handy in revealing fine detail in small objects at magnifications that a loupe ...

A reconstructed image of cervical cancer cells provided by the microscope CyteLive, which can offer greater field of view than that of a conventional microscope. (Photo provided to Xinhua) A lens-free ...