“Look with your eyes, not your hands” is something many of us have heard while growing up, but that doesn’t apply to the touch-sensitive microscope [Steve Mould] got to play with. Gel pad ...

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But now, by combining an optical microscope with a transparent microsphere, dubbed the ‘microsphere nanoscope’, the Manchester researchers can see 20 times smaller – 50 nanometres (5 x 10-8m) – under ...

This microscope was also comfortable to use and ... It had a wealth of well-considered components to allow observations of transparent and solid objects, in the lab or in the field.