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Fun With Solar Energy Experiments

If you worry at all about the earth, you have probably worried about the various ways that you can produce power, and how well this power will work. Much of the earth relies on electricity – without it there is no way to do the things that you need to do. However, many of the [...]

Tips on Set-Up, Use and Maintenance of a Stereo Microscope

For young children, a stereo microscope is one of the most useful gifts you can provide them with to nurture their curiosity and creativity. Usually, it is of lower power than a compound microscope with magnification levels at approximately 10X-40X. And as children can study whole albeit small objects like flowers, insects and rocks as [...]

See the Invisible With a Fluorescent Microscope

Have you ever wondered how doctors and scientists seem to know exactly how cell divides, what they look like, and what they do? At some point in your life, you may have peeked under a microscope in a biology class. You probably felt the images weren’t that interesting or colorful. But if you had done [...]

Understanding Phase Contrast Microscopes

In 1953, the world recognized the scientific genius that is the phase contrast microscope. Forget high useful – it wasn’t just useful, it was crucial for actual live observations of intra-cellular processes like cell division. Medical and biological sciences research are now focused on the real time, real life observation of living organisms to analyze [...]