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Each year, we bring you the most compelling microscopic videos from the annual Nikon Small World in Motion competition. And each year, the videos paint detailed pictures of entire worlds hidden ...
Nikon's Small World competition recognizes the best microscope photographs of the year.. Microscopy is an art and a science, revealing the alien beauty of the hidden world all around us. The 2022 ...
Started in 1975, the contest celebrates the beauty of images taken through a light microscope. Scientists and hobbyists alike enter, and the winner receives a $3,000 prize.
A microorganism, or microbe, [a] is an organism of microscopic size, which may exist in its single-celled form or as a colony of cells. The possible existence of unseen microbial life was suspected from ancient times, such as in Jain scriptures from sixth century BC India.
Given the incomplete nature of scientific knowledge, it is possible that the smallest organism is undiscovered. Furthermore, there is some debate over the definition of life , and what entities qualify as organisms; consequently the smallest known organisms (microrganisms) may be nanobes that can be 20 nanometers long.
Microbiology (from Ancient Greek μῑκρος (mīkros) 'small' βίος (bíos) 'life' and -λογία () 'study of') is the scientific study of microorganisms, those being of unicellular (single-celled), multicellular (consisting of complex cells), or acellular (lacking cells).
The 1.6-billion-year-old organisms are believed to have been the first predators on Earth.
The microfauna are the least understood of soil life, due to their small size and great diversity. Many microfauna are members of the so-called cryptozoa, animals that remain undescribed by science. Out of the estimated 10–20 million animal species in the world, only 1.8 million have been given scientific names, and many of the remaining ...