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 ...

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 ...

Third Place: The Birthing of a Water Flea. Captured by microscopic photographer Andrei Savitsky from Ukraine, the third-place winning video shows a water flea, scientific name Daphnia pulex ...

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, ...

His most powerful microscope holds a lens likely made with Robert Hooke’s 1678 recipe. Skip to content ... Robert Hooke's famous drawing of a flea, viewed through a microscope.

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 ...