A magnifying glass contains a lens that’s made into a convex shape in order to better see small objects. Magnifying glasses have plenty of uses, from making it easier to read a book to examining ...

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 ...

Enlarge a detail in your photo by peering through a fake magnifying glass Once you take a photo with a digital camera, you can do pretty much anything you want with it. You can tweak the exposure, ...

Astronomers are living in a golden age of bigger and better telescopes. But even our most advanced technology pales in comparison to the power of nature’s own “cosmic magnifying glasses” – strong ...

Glimpse worlds beyond our own with AG’s esteemed space expert and living legend, Fred Watson. Fred Watson is an honorary professor at Macquarie University and was Australia’s first Astronomer-at-Large ...

A newly discovered cluster-scale strong gravitational lens, with a rare alignment of seven background lensed galaxies, provides a unique opportunity to study cosmology. In a rare and extraordinary ...