Microscopes continue to develop over time, giving us access to increasingly incredible magnification.
The radical notion that each cell in our body is programmed to die has major implications for research into disease and bodily development. This fi...
In the 14th programme Prof Ian Fells and Carol Vorderman show us how to make our own microscope and how to make a very basic microscope usi...
Biologist George McGavin goes on a journey around the British Isles to show us the extraordinary little things that are vital to our land. With a revolutio...
The human eye can see extraordinary detail, but the eye of a needle held at arm's length is pretty much at the limit...
Dara and the team reveal why size matters in science and how discoveries large and small are changing the way w...
Adam Rutherford explains how, in the 1670s, Dutch businessman Anton van Leeuwenhoek revolutionised microscopy by curving a lens mo...
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