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.

This microscope kit has the right balance of education and fun to provide kids with engaging tasks that they can carry out independently. The name of this microscope, Ultimate Dual, describes the ...

But it's possible to see things much smaller than that if we use magnification. There's three types of microscope: light, like this one here, and two types of electron microscopes, like those ones ...