An interactive Java tutorial that allows you to view several animals using electron microscopy. You are able to adjust the focus, contrast, brightness, and magnification to optimize specimen appearance.

How do we see things too small to be detected by the human eye? What about things inside our own bodies? Dee Breger uses a scanning electron microscope to give us a glimpse of images including blood clots, thyroid glands, and lungs with...

A description of the three different types of microscopy: light, transmission electron, and scanning electron

Get an overview of light microscopes, scanning electron microscopes and transmission electron microscopes. There is also a brief description of sizes for several microscopic objects.