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Top Story: Microscopes: why seeing smaller is not always better
By Liisa Hirvonen
Why are researchers working on a new type of microscope that has a lower resolution than those which already exist? Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek first saw and described cells and bacteria through one of the first microscopes in the 17th century....
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