Sunday, June 7, 2015

US Students Engineer A Foldscope Telescope






Senior marine biology classes were chosen to beta test a new and exciting origami microscope developed by a Bioengineer at Stanford University.  The Foldscope as it is called conceived by scientists at The Prakash Lab at Stanford University, focuses on democratizing science by developing scientific tools that can scale up to match problems in global health and science education. Part of a growing trend to encourage citizen scientists, meant to democratize the field of work and inspire the next generation to have greater interest in science. You can read more by clicking here.










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