World’s most powerful microscope

Peek over the parapet of a bridge just as daylight bleeds into dusk, gazing down through the clear layers of a shallow river or chalk stream, and you may glimpse the shadowy, serpentine form of an eel

MOST artists have big plans when they start on a new piece of work. David A Lindon always has small plans. Very small plans. In fact, absolutely tiny. He’s a world record-setting micro artist who is l

Just like a bee sting, apparently; hardly anything to worry about. Just painful enough to make you swear under your breath, and you might get a bit of a swollen finger. Sounds fine, but I’m still not

STANDING in the forest at 11 p.m. on a Scottish island, I feel like I’ve gone through the looking glass. The grass is purple, the trees look like they’re sheeted in aluminium, the leaves are red and t

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Of all the garden minibeasts, few are as misunderstood as this humble creature