As an iPhone photographer I enjoy the using the Apple Camera apps’s Macro option to capture close-ups of a wide range of subjects. Regardless of which lens I choose my iPhone will automatically switch ...

MacRumors is an Apple-focused site, but sometimes we like to share notable new features that Apple's competitors add to their devices, as a look at what Apple might explore in the future and just to ...

If you would like to harness the power of your mobile phones cameras to be able to explore a world normally hidden from sight. You might be interested in a new HD optical phone microscope now ...

Using a smartphone to capture a microscopic image. Some phones have a built-in microscope lens but still cannot achieve the 400x, 800x and 1000x of a regular microscope lens. Smartphone microscopes ...

Professor Timo Betz is a biophysicist at the University of Göttingen in Germany. His name is found on widely cited research papers with serious-sounding titles like Neurite branch retraction is caused ...

Researchers at German universities have devised a way to get microscopes into the hands of science-curious kids on a budget using scavenged iPhone 5 lenses and Lego. Researchers Bart E. Vos, Emil Betz ...

Thanks to over 4,000 backers the amazingly powerful iMicro Q2p phone microscope campaign on Kickstarter has raised over $250,000 and has now entered its final week. Offering an affordable, tiny ...

RICHLAND, Wash. – At one o'clock in the morning, layers of warm plastic are deposited on the platform of the 3D printer that sits on scientist Rebecca Erikson's desk. A small plastic housing, designed ...

The Oppo Find X3 Pro has the world’s first microscope camera and I had a little too much fun using it to take microscopic photos of ordinary things. From the backside, the Oppo Find X3 Pro (oof, ...