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Some time before 1668, Antony van Leeuwenhoek learned to grind lenses and make simple microscopes. Scientists have been looking through different versions of this imaging system ever since. There’s ...

At a charter school in California, fourth and fifth graders study rare insects using an electron microscope via a fiber-optic link to a nearby university. At an elementary school in Washington, fourth ...

Plus, a guy with momentum can crash on through to a new century and do fine, at least for a while. But law enforcement, maybe more than anything else, is really under the 21st-century microscope. No ...