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There are several crops that can prevent flea beetles from taking up residence in your garden, including catnip, basil, thyme ...
The beginning of the microscope of to-day is traceable to the small, single lens instrument of the sixteenth century, called at the time Vita pulicaria, or flea-glass, because by its aid the true ...
The winners of Nikon's Small World microscopy competition reveal the hidden structures of leaves, eyeballs, butterfly wings, and table salt.
The winners of Nikon's Small World microscopy competition reveal the hidden structures of leaves, eyeballs, butterfly wings, and table salt.
Microscope lenses reconstructed according to the method of Robert Hooke, which Antonie van Leeuwenhoek also used for his highly magnifying microscopes.
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A microscopic, see-through water flea is the most complex creature ever studied, genomically speaking. Daphnia pulex is the first crustacean to ever have its genome sequenced, and it turns out it ...
Robert Hooke (1635-1703) is best known for his depiction of a flea as seen through his microscope, made scary through magnification: almost all body and little head, a giant apparatus for storing ...
Artists work between heartbeats to produce an unusual masterpiece: a flea clad in golden horseshoes.
This strange alien-like creature is actually from far closer to home. The eerily beautiful image is of a water flea with a radiant green 'crown of thorns' to protect it from predators ...