Microscope: The Tube That Changed the World
Humans have long known that glass bends light. However, it took us awhile to figure out that stacking lenses in a tube would open up a whole new world to science, finally allowing us a peek...
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It's the very symbol of scientific endeavor used by researchers in most every field whether you study elephants or nanobots. If you do science you probably need to study the very small before you can get to the big picture. For more than four hundred years, we've been able to do this thanks to the optical, or light microscope, an ingeniously simple device without which we would not have found a cure for polio, or been able to make microchips, or discover some of the fundamental properties of light itself. And it made it all possible using the same basic technology for hundreds of years Of course if you want to start a full-on "Petri dish throw and roll up your lab coat sleeves" science fight, all you have to do is raise the question of who ...
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It's the very symbol of scientific endeavor used by researchers in most every field whether you study elephants or nanobots. If you do science you probably need to study the very small before you can get to the big picture. For more than four hundred years, we've been able to do this thanks to the optical, or light microscope, an ingeniously simple device without which we would not have found a cure for polio, or been able to make microchips, or discover some of the fundamental properties of light itself. And it made it all possible using the same basic technology for hundreds of years Of course if you want to start a full-on "Petri dish throw and roll up your lab coat sleeves" science fight, all you have to do is raise the question of who ...
