18 cool electron microscope pictures in colour

These pictures are from book ‘Microcosmos,’ by Brandon Brill of London. It includes scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of insects, human body parts and household items. They are the most amazing images of what is too small to see with naked eye.
Sent by: Gene B.

An ant, Formica fusca, holding a microchip

Surface of an Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory silicon microchip

Eyelash hairs growing from the surface of human skin

The surface of a strawberry

Bacteria on the surface of a human tongue

Human sperm (spermatozoa)

Nylon hooks and loops of Velcro

Household dust: includes long hairs of cat fur, twisted synthetic and woollen fibres, serrated insect scales, a pollen grain, and plant and insect remains

The weave of nylon stocking fibres

The head of a mosquito

Head louse clinging to a human hair

Eight eyes (two groups of four) on the head of a tarantula

Cut human hairs and shaving foam between two razor blades

Cigarette paper the tobacco is rolled in

Rusted Nail

Mushrooms spores

Clutch of butterfly eggs on a raspberry plant

Calcium phosphate crystal