In a remote village in eastern India, dozens of underprivileged children are for the first time marveling at the elaborate details of flower petals with the help of a microscope—made out of bamboo.

Discover a microscopic world with one of the best microscopes for students and young scientists, without emptying your wallet — the top picks ahead of Black Friday. The best microscopes for ...

What Is the 1942 Lincoln Wheat Penny Made Of? Victor D. Brenner designed the 1942 Lincoln Wheat Penny, one of the one-cent ...

We’ve all likely seen the amazing images possible with a scanning electron microscope. An SEM can yield remarkably detailed 3D images of the tiniest structures, and they can be invaluable tools ...

A rare antique camera, bought for just £60 by Antique ... Automatique cameras — essentially a camera combined with microscope. Paul Laidlaw found a rare primitive camera in a Kent antique ...

Textile analysis can aid everyone from forensic anthropologists searching for clues to museum conservators hoping to identify and preserve an antique ... a polarizing light microscope to see ...

After an Orthodox Jewish man was shot while walking to his synagogue on the Sabbath in Rogers Park, Chicago, last weekend, media outlets quickly gathered and disseminated information about the ...

In 1916, the Walking Liberty design made by Adolph Alexander Weinman was chosen as the new half dollar motif to replace the ...

Late 1600s – Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek constructed a microscope with a single spherical lens. It magnified up to ×275. 1800s - the optical quality of lenses increased and the ...

For maximum preservation, antique textiles, especially cottons and linens, should have no direct contact with wood, blue tissue, regular tissue, or other wrapping paper. Most paper tends to be acidic; ...

WARNING: This article contains spoilers from Antiques Roadshow. An Antiques Roadshow guest nearly “binned” a painting which turned out to be worth a small fortune. The BBC daytime series ...

Our oceans are changing fast. Find out how Museum collections are helping scientists to understand the future of marine life. Around 95% of the Earth's oceans are still unexplored - in fact, we know ...