From secret mushroom worlds to extreme close-ups of cell motion, these photographs represent how, in science, things often aren't what they seem on the surface.
What you see here isn’t slime, nor jelly. It’s a photograph of an extremely zoomed-in drop of water housing tiny spheres of colonial algae, which Jan Rosenboom, a chemical engineer from Germany, captured using reflected light microscopy.
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