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In this video Dr Beverley Glover explains how a daisy is a collection of tiny flowers grouped together to make it look like a single big flower.

A superlens would let you see a virus in a drop of blood and open the door to better and cheaper electronics. It might, says one researcher, make ultra-high-resolution microscopes as commonplace as cameras in our cell phones.

A new theoretical negative-index metamaterial works by overcoming the diffraction limit throughout the visible spectrum.

The Olympus BioScapes International Imaging Competition provides a selection of photographs that flame off our pages each December in riotous color.

Isabella Potter from Wigan was the first baby born using a new fertility technique that allows parents to watch their baby from the moment of conception.

Biological flying machine? Terrifying monster of the deep? Nope - this is just a scanning electron microscopy image of a Lamnacarus ornatus, or common mite.

Since the discovery of the microscope, scientists have tried to visualize smaller and smaller structures to provide insights into the inner workings of human cells, bacteria and viruses.