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James Lucas@JamesLucasIT · Oct 15, 2024

Looking at the world through a microscope 🧵 1. Terrifying photo of an ant's face

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A visually stunning thread showcasing the incredible and often surprising details of everyday objects and organisms when viewed through microscopes, from ant faces and snowflakes to blood cells and shark skin. The collection reveals hidden complexity in nature and man-made items, including fascinating facts like why paper cuts hurt more than knife cuts.

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    Looking at the world through a microscope 🧵 1. Terrifying photo of an ant's face

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    2. The human eye looks like a black hole This stunning photo by Suren Manvelyan reveals the depth of the cornea; behind it lies the iris, the colored part of the eye that regulates the size of the pupil.

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    3. Mushrooms release millions of microscopic spores into the wind to reproduce. Video by Villareal C. Jojo.

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    4. Grains of salt under a microscope

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    5. Real-time oxygen production on a leaf

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    6. A cat’s tongue under a microscope looks like it’s made of other smaller tongues

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    7. Zooming into a leaf 📹macrofying

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    8. Macro shot of a chameleon eye

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    9. This is what a pen looks like under an electron microscope

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    10. Microscopic look at a bee stinger vs. the point of a needle

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    11. Our white blood cells attacking a virus

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    12. Close-up shots of spider eyes captured by Spanish macro photographer Javier Rupérez.

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    13. Zooming into a cup of coffee 📹macrofying

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    14. Kidney stone surface as seen in an electron microscope

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    15. The needles of a tattoo machine injecting ink into ballistic gel

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    16. This is what a hole in the skin looks like after a needle punctures it, as observed under a scanning electron microscope.

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    17. This is what it looks like when a pill dissolves in water

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    18. This is shark skin under electron microscope

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    19. This is what smoke looks like in Macro

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    20. Paper cuts are surprisingly painful because, at a microscopic level, paper has a rough texture. While a knife creates a clean cut, paper behaves like a saw blade, inflicting more damage to cells and nerve endings.

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    21. Macro photo of lizard skin

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    22. A matchstick igniting by the friction surface of the box

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    23. Microscopic image of a tapeworm head

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    24. Zooming into a hand 📹macrofying

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    25. This is another image of an ant's face, captured by photographer Abdul Latif using a mirrorless camera. This shot also highlights the insect's eyes, while the first photo in this thread only shows the antennae holes.

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    26. Look at this microscopic tardigrade going for a swim through some algae. Tardigrades are tiny micro-animals first described by German zoologist J. Goeze in 1773. They were named Tardigrada (slow steppers) by Italian biologist L. Spallanzani in 1776.

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    James Lucas@JamesLucasIT · Oct 15, 2024

    Looking at the world through a microscope 🧵 1. Terrifying photo of an ant's face

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