The most common configurations of biological microscopes are student, benchtop, and research. Student microscopes are the smallest and least expensive type of microscope. They are capable of advanced ...

Electron microscopes use a focused beam of electrons instead of light to "image" the specimen and gain information as to its structure and composition. Common types of information yielded are ...

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 ...

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.