10 results for “microscope”

1. Life & Biology

   What Is Life? The Cell

   Everything alive is made of cells, tiny bags of chemistry that eat, grow, copy themselves and

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2. Plants & Fungi

   Photosynthesis: How Plants Eat Light

   microscopic pores on its underside, and an enzyme grabs each molecule and bolts it onto a sugar

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3. Plants & Fungi

   Fungi

   microscopic particles produced in staggering numbers: a single large mushroom can release billions in a day, and the air you breathe

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4. Planet Earth

   Rocks, Minerals and Fossils

   microscopic plankton shells that drifted to a sea floor 90 million years ago. Sedimentary rocks form

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5. Planet Earth

   The Oceans

   Microscopic floating plants, the phytoplankton, produce about half of all the oxygen in the atmosphere and feed

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6. The Human Body

   Digestion

   microscopic bristles, so that the total surface area is about 30 square metres. Across this surface

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7. Animals

   Birds

   microscopic hooks that zip neighbouring barbs together into a surface that is light, flexible and almost

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8. Matter, Energy & Physics

   Atoms

   microscopes that feel surfaces with a needle a single atom wide began producing images of them

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9. Animals

   Reptiles and Amphibians

   microscopic hairs on their toes, to the chameleon with its colour changes and a tongue longer

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10. The Human Body

    Lungs and Breathing

    microscopic grapes. Their walls are one cell thick and wrapped in capillaries. Here, across a barrier

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