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.

The Motic DMBA200 digital microscope offers users a built-in no hassle professional digital microscope. With its high-resolution live imaging chip permanently housed in the seidentopf head ...

That makes it orders of magnitude more portable and less expensive than a professional desktop microscope. The applications for a fingertip microscope are many and various. From science classes to ...