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Amazing Electron Microscope Images
Everyday things look completely alien under a scanning electron microscope (SEM). Take a fascinating tour of the microscopic world.
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Dust Mite and Human Skin
Dust mites feed on flakes of shed human skin and flourish in the stable environment of dwellings. House dust mites are a common cause of asthma and allergic symptoms worldwide.
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Snow Crystals
Snowflakes are groups of 2 frozen ice crystals stuck together which fall through the Earth's atmosphere. They begin as two snow crystals which develop when microscopic supercooled cloud droplets freeze.
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Human Eyelashes
Eyelashes are meant to protect the eye from debris and airborne attacks, they perform some of the same function as whiskers do on a cat or a mouse in the sense that they are sensitive to being touched, providing a slight warning that an object is near the eye.
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Venus Fly Trap Pollen
The first thing that happens in pollination is when pollen from one of the Venus flytrap's anthers lands on the flower's stamen.
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Bromeliad Mosquito Wing
Mosquitoes have scales on their wings and the females possess a long piercing proboscis.
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