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You might’ve encountered them on the internet, in your favorite sci-fi movie or TV show, on the news or even in real life! Tardigrades, also...

Compensators are birefringent crystals with a known amount of birefringence and include ¼, full wave, and multiple wave plates (Quartz Wedge). T...

When viewing anisotropic specimens with a polarized light microscope many specimens appear beautiful, especially crystals, and polarized light m...

In the history of microscopy, one of the challenges microscopists faced was producing enough contrast when observing thin tissue sections and li...

Following up on our previous piece (Part I) on contrast methods, in Part II we talk about Polarization and DIC. Polarization - This contrast method is...

Ever wonder which lighting technique on a microscope is best for your samples? Different contrast methods could be vital to emphasize features and defects. Motic...

Have you ever crashed your microscope objective into a sample ? At some point we all have This is where the concept of Working Distance...

The Moticam ProS5 Lite dedicated microscope camera offers 5MP (2448 x 2048 px) and can be attached to a microscope via a C-mount. A C-mount is a...

As technology has improved in cameras, monitors, computers and software so has risen the popularity of Digital Microscopes. Below we breakdown the differences between a...