WASHINGTON -- Inserting air into hot glass to form a bubble has been used to make glass objects since Roman times. In new work, researchers apply these same glass blowing principles on a microscopic ...

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Do you have plans this weekend? May we suggest a relaxed evening of crushing, rolling, and blowing — glass, of course. Rural ...

Van Leeuwenhoek's microscope's were simple gadgets by today's standards, with a spike to hold the object being studied and a single magnifying lens to look through. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, the 17 ...

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