If you’re reading Hackaday, you’re probably intimately familiar with really small parts. 0201 resistors are tiny, and even smaller parts aren’t unheard of. The screws that go in your phone are ...

It’s strange to think that the light of the sun can light fires here on Earth, but with the right concentration of sunlight — it’s surprisingly easy. For those of us who burned ants with magnifying ...

Astronomers using Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) have found evidence for a bizarre lensing system in space, in which a large assemblage of stars is magnifying a much more distant ...

A team of scientists used a clever physics trick to study a galaxy that’s otherwise so far away that no observatories on or orbiting the Earth could get a good look at it. The technique, known as ...

Which kids’ magnifying glass is best? Kids’ magnifying glasses are perfect for kids that are in a detective phase or simply want to work on hobbies like knitting, model-building or collecting ...

An international team of astronomers using gravitational lensing observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken an important step forward in the quest to solve the riddle of dark ...

Headband magnifiers are convenient tools for painting miniatures, embroidery, puzzles, and more, keeping hands free and providing a closer look at fine details. To pick the best headband magnifier, ...

Soldering tiny stuff is hard, if not impossible, without some optical assistance. [Ad_w00000] was having just this problem, so built himself a soldering magnifier to help. The magnifier uses a variety ...

Jet material ejected from a black hole is magnified in new observations from Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory. This discovery provides the best view yet of blobs of hot gas that shoot out from ...