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 ...

The Magnifying Lens isn't typically an item one would imagine as crucial to finish Link's Awakening. However, it's very much critical in getting through the game's final minutes. The Mabe Village ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Make a magnifying glass effect with a lens have curvature like a real magnifying glass. Used: Magnify Bulge After Effects ...

Modern space telescopes are tremendously powerful instruments, able to look deep into space without being limited by the blurring effects of Earth’s atmosphere. But even this is not enough to allow ...

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 ...