The word “microscope” comes from the Latin “microscopium,” which is derived from the Greek words “mikros,” meaning “small,” and “skopein,” meaning...

It is not definitively known who invented the microscope. However, the earliest microscopes seem to have been made by Dutch opticians Hans Janssen...

Microscope slides are small rectangles of transparent glass or plastic, on which a specimen can rest so it can be examined under a microscope.

Cells die upon entering a vacuum because a vacuum is a void. This means that there is nothing there. There is no air, just the absence of matter. I...

The electron microscope was invented in 1931 by German physicist Ernst Ruska, and an electrical engineer, Max Knoll.

The lens closest to the object it is observing is called the objective lens. Get it? Object / Objective. It focuses light directly from the object...

The production and distribution of microscopes, especially electron microscopes, can vary from year to year and depend on several factors. While I...

A light microscope is the typical microscope you would use at home: you simply observe something as it is using regular ilght. Other more specific...

The void contains no space, no time, no mass, and no charge. I see it kinda like this: On Earth, one minute is 60 seconds. But on Mars, it is diffe...

World smallest cell: SAR11 micro-organism (found in sea water). Length 1 micrometer. while Mycoplasma gallisepticum has 10micrometers in diameter....

A light microscope can only magnify up to 1000-2000 times, an electron microscope can magnify something up to 2 million times.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but according to the formula for resolution, the smaller the wavelength the better the resolution. That being said the sho...

And for the second question, it would depend on how you classify a "dead" person. Some countries pronounce a person dead if their heart stops, wher...