Nikon's Small World competition recognizes the art and science of microscope photography. This year's winning images reveal firing neurons, the vessels of leaves and eyeballs, and colorful ...

A flea, as seen through an eighteenth-century microscope used poorly (left) and correctly (right). Credit: Wh.0080, Whipple Museum of the History of Science, University of Cambridge / B. Ford ...

Under the microscope: Glowing alien-like flea takes top photography prize. By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Updated: 04:54 EDT, 23 November 2009 ...

Nikon's Small World competition recognizes the art and science of microscope photography. This year's winning images reveal firing neurons, the vessels of leaves and eyeballs, and colorful ...

Nikon's Small World competition recognizes the art and science of microscope photography. This year's winning images reveal firing neurons, the vessels of leaves and eyeballs, and colorful ...

Nikon's Small World competition recognizes the art and science of microscope photography. This year's winning images reveal firing neurons, the vessels of leaves and eyeballs, and colorful crystals ...

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, ...

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 ...

When Robert Hooke first looked at a piece of cork under a microscope in 1665, he was looking for scientific reasons--but that didn't keep him from seeing the intrinsic beauty in the slides.