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Over on YouTube [Applied Science] shows us how to make an f/0.38 camera lens using an oil immersion microscope objective. The f-number of a lens indicates how well it will perform in low-light. To ...

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Materials scientists can learn a lot about a sample material by shooting lasers at it. With nonlinear optical microscopy — a ...

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A science team from Lakehead University and a film crew from southern Ontario completed a nine-day expedition to explore the ...

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