One in five people in the UK suffer from hay fever every year - but even the worst affected could appreciate the beauty of pollen grains blown up by a million times. This gallery features false-colour ...

IF insects gross you out in real life you probably aren’t prepared for what they look like under an electron microscope. Electron microscopes are used to closely examine the structures of small ...

These astonishing pictures reveal a stunning microscopic world - with beautiful images of algae, lobster eggs and soap film. The close-ups give a glimpse into a universe that most have never seen, one ...

A coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of the head of a maggot or the larva of a bluebottle fly (Protophormia sp.) with tiny teeth-like fangs extending from its mouth. The maggots of this fly ...