You and your child will enjoy hours observing objects around your home or outdoors with this portable battery-operated handheld microscope ... and blank and prepared slides Insects perfectly ...

So he set out to make something better ... fits in a pocket, holds regular microscope slides, and can magnify their contents more than 2,000 times using a small built-in lens.

This microscope toy is functional, durable, educational, and a blast to play with. For any science-minded kid, it will make a great gift. No built-in storage for the smart slides, so it’s easy ...

Microscopes became cheaper, and a popular form of entertainment. Viewers peered through them at specimens they'd collected themselves or slides prepared professionally. The image above shows an ...

[Nature Under Glass: Gallery of Victorian Microscope Slides] One of the strangest slides in collector Howard Lynk's collection contains three innocuous-looking brown hairs, which came from the ...

The humble glass microscope slide may be primed for a makeover. A study published online May 2 in the journal Nature Communications describes how an updated version of this centuries-old tool can now ...