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Visualizing the nanoscale.

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Close up of a human cell

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Spring flowers reveal their true selves in extreme close-up.

Flowers are one of the great joys of spring, but viewing them under a scanning electron microscope uncovers a surreal, alien beauty.

These images were created by the award-winning German microscopy team Eye of Science, comprising photographer Oliver Meckes and biologist Nicole Ottawa.

A Primula petal

A Rapeseed flower petal

The stamens of a Hibiscus flower

Four Lilac pollen grains

A Valerian flower

The stigma of an Arnica flower

The anther of a small-leaved Lime flower

A Rapeseed flower petal

Pollen grains (grey) on the stigma (yellow) of an Arnica flower

The floret of a Chamomile flower

via   The Guardian.

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Hair on a bee.

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The silica shell of a marine diatom, seen with a scanning electron microscope.  Each pillar is about 1 micrometer tall, the small pores on the surface are 50 nanometers in diameter.

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Chestnut

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Crystallization of glucose

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Snow

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Scorpion

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Diatom arachnoidiscus

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butterfly wings

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Guitar string

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microscopic view of bone

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