| October 25, 2005 |
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Science & Photography Through the Microscope
They  say everything looks better from a distance, but here's proof that it's not always true. While no one's itching to get close to the mosquito, when it's magnified a couple of thousand times, the notorious pest begins to look almost...beautiful. With this site, you can zoom in on the detailed anatomy of a black ant or fruit fly, simulate the use of a scanning electron microscope to magnify a bee's eye or a carpet beetle (up to 4000x), discover the 12 Most Wanted bugs (like our old pals the cockroach or the cat flea), and browse "over 1500 micrographs of scientific, biological, and medical subjects photographed with light and electron microscopes." So if you don't know an ant's, er, rear end from its abdomen...don't worry, you will. (in Insects) |
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