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 ...

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 ...

The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. Clear liquid droplets can bend light, acting like a lens. By exploiting this well-known phenomenon ...

Add one more thing to the list of tasks your smartphone can perform. Researchers have released an open-source dataset offering instructions to people interested in building their own smartphone ...