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SAN ANTONIO — Students at Edison High School added a salt solution to their microscope slides and watched in awe Wednesday as tiny dots of chloroplasts in plant cells moved away from the outer walls.

Many remember that moment of discovery when they looked through the lens of a microscope in science class and saw a whole new world. The challenge is that most school districts can afford only a few ...

If your kid can’t get enough animal books, Nat Geo documentaries and time roaming around your backyard collecting bugs, it might be time to take their exploration to a new, tangible level with ...

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 ...

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