Science Fenns / Looking closer
Microscope
Start with your own eyes. Then go closer. Then closer still. Pick a slide and dive in.
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Your eyes. Can you even see it?
- Your eyesJust a speck
- Hand lensCloser
- MicroscopeCloser still
- ClosestAll the way in
Slide 1 of 20
Pick a slide
How big is it?
Look for:
0 of 20 slides in your box. Go all the way in on a slide to keep it.
The slide drawer
Poppy’s game
Mystery Slide
Poppy put a slide under the lens. You only see a tiny piece. Which slide is it? Zoom out if you need help. Fewer hints, more points.
Round 1 of 8
Where the photographs come from
Every picture here is a real photograph. Each one is shared by its photographer under a free license, through Wikimedia Commons. Thank you to all of them.
- Salt grain · Prosthetic Head · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Sugar crystal · Gustamons · CC0
- Baking yeast · ~delta · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Onion skin · loganrickert · CC BY 2.0
- Moss leaf · Dietzel65 · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Flower pollen · Louisa Howard, Dartmouth College Electron Microscope Facility · Public domain
- Wool fiber · CSIRO · CC BY 3.0
- Human hair · CSIRO · CC BY 3.0
- Denim cloth · Thegreenj · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Paper · Eva Santini, Giovanna Canu et al. · CC BY 4.0
- Spider silk · ConformationXII · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Sand · Alexander Klepnev · CC BY 4.0
- Butterfly wing · Gribkov · CC BY 4.0
- Peacock feather · Gribkov · CC BY 4.0
- Fly eye · USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab · Public domain
- Bee wing · Aquincanus · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Shark skin · Pascal Deynat / Odontobase · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Diatoms · Prof. Gordon T. Taylor, Stony Brook University · Public domain
- Tardigrade · DSparrow14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Snowflake · Wilson Bentley · Public domain