From an entomologist hiking in the Amazon, to a young amateur scientist in Namibia studying bacteria: the community of users of the Foldscope is limitless. An article in The Atlantic describes the endless possibilities behind the paper origami microscope created by Moore Foundation grantee Manu Prakash of Stanford University.
Thousands of these microscopes have been sent out to users around the world and they have been documenting their discoveries and building a community dedicated to microscopy and curiosity on a website developed by Prakash and his team.
“‘The Foldscope doesn’t tell you what to do. It’s open-ended,’ says Prakash. ‘In biology classrooms, you read about something and then you look. But when you become a scientist, you look first. Then, you become so curious that you pile through everything that’s known so you can venture into the unknown.’”
Read the full article here.
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