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Have you ever seen a microscope built for multiple people to use at once? Probably not — they’re rare.
Yet at some universities, entire groups of students can use a single microscope at the same time.
That’s made possible by broadcasting the microscope’s image to a screen.
The setup is standard — except the transmission isn’t coming from a TV studio; it’s coming straight from the microscope stage. The image is magnified and projected onto a screen. This setup lets many researchers observe organisms that live for only a few minutes.
