In the 1950’s Dr. Royal Rife, an American inventor designed a very powerful microscope that could detect living microbes by the color of their vibratory rates.
Poux, mites, puces, termites... Ces insectes pullulent dans notre environnment sans que l'on puisse les voir. Observez-les de près avec ces magnifiques clichés de Thierry Berrod.
Crossing a microscope with a camera gives you a micrograph, a tiny photograph that allows artists and scientists to show the beauty inaccessible to the naked eye. This year the winners of the "Small World Competition" range from an anglerfish ovary to the sex organs of plants via a rusted old coin.