Specialised microscopes allow us to view an object’s surface and its internal structures to build up 3D images from thin 2D slices and to look much...
Since Antonie van Leeuwenhoek first saw mysterious ‘animalcules’ (bacteria) through his simple glass lens in the late 1600s, scientists have wanted to understand more about the...
In this activity, students make a simple microscope with everyday materials.
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