Large Classroom Kit 2.0: 100 units of the Foldscope 2.0 - perfect for large groups and classrooms! These accessories represent the next evolution in portable microscopy, providing scientists and ...

Eight-year-old S. Hariraj is a Foldscope devotee. He's used it to look at the milk from the cows his parents raise. Though the milk looks creamy, the Foldscope reveals a world of microorganisms. "It ...

Stanford University's Manu Prakash is looking to give away 10,000 Foldscopes to field testers with interesting ideas for how to use the 50-cent gadget. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she ...

An engineer at Stanford University has created a DIY microscope, called the Foldscope, that is fashioned out of a single piece of printed-and-folded A4 paper, origami-style. This paper-based ...

The Foldscope was designed by Manu Prakash and Jim Cybulski at Stanford University and launched in a pilot program in 2014. Its waterproof paper body can be folded into existence from one sheet and ...

Manu Prakash, Co-founder of Foldscope and Associate Professor at Stanford, shows how to couple your phone to a Foldscope. Photo credit: Stanford Bioengineering Department Young student assembling a ...

The MicroRealms Projector is a 50x-1000x microscope with an embedded projector that fits in your pocket. The MicroRealms Projector supercharges curiosity – when it only takes seconds to see something ...