We take a microscope slide.

You see under a microscope.

Some chose the microscope as their instrument.

This microscope magnifies objects by 100 times.

Do you know who invented the microscope?

And I looked at it underneath the microscope.

And underneath the microscope there were splinters of glass.

Sometimes they send you pictures of them using the microscope.

It's like a microscope to the rest of the world.

So again this is what they can see under the microscope.

Do you know the difference between a microscope and a telescope?

Do you know the difference between a microscope and a telescope?

You can look with a microscope and see them on a surface.

This is the way a living cell looks down a light microscope.

And so we peer through a legal microscope, and look at everything.

If we see something that looks interesting, we pull it into a microscope.

This is taken through a fiber optics microscope. It's down inside the nest.

And I looked at it beneath the microscope. And some of it was flat.

What I did, I plucked the tag out and put it underneath the microscope.

You can see on the microscope slide here, that's what's happening in real time.

I mean they're incredibly small, you have to have a microscope to see one.

They post projects, so they say, I want to teach Huckleberry Finn to my class and we don't have the books, or I want a microscope to teach my students science and we don't have a microscope.

And, secondly, to convince you that every home really ought to have a scanning electron microscope.

We couldn't have a germ theory of disease before we invented the microscope to see them.

Think of the AlloSphere as a large, dynamically varying digital microscope that's connected to a supercomputer.

There's the atomic force microscope working and you can see that the landing's a little rough.

In the beginning you see the ants just kind of engaging with the fiber optics microscope.

All these pictures were taken with a scanning electron microscope, actually in the lab at Kew Laboratories.

It's like building a microscope or telescope and revealing new structures about our own behavior around communication.

As I say, every home should have a scanning electron microscope to be able to see these.

And all these crystals here under the microscope were dead a few minutes ago, and they look alive.

This is real AFM Atomic Force Microscope data from my colleagues in the Solid State Lighting and Energy Center.

And so, when you start to look at emergent systems, you can look at a neuron under a microscope.

And then finally somebody picked up a microscope and looked at the water that was sitting next to the cores.

There's a blade here that's going to cut across a section of the tissue and transfer it to a microscope slide.

And what I normally do is walk 'round a room trying to find one. And then I put it underneath the microscope.

And under the scanning electron microscope, you can see the surface there really quite different from the other surfaces we looked at.

Today, you need to do a complicated laboratory procedure, create a bunch of microscope slides and have a trained person examine it.

The pathologist takes that sample, freezes it, cuts it, looks in the microscope one by one and then calls back into the room.

And under the microscope, you can see hundreds of these brown staining blood vessels, capillaries that are feeding cancer cells, bringing oxygen and nutrients.

Trade in one electron microscope, at a cost of 400,000, was not sufficiently attractive for the company to attempt to change its trade policy.

So when they were sitting in front of the microscope, when they were talking to their colleague at the water cooler, and all these things.

So, to cut a long story short, I went home, went underneath the microscope, and I crushed up a piece of glass, crushed it up.

So, there you see, it's a liver with colon cancer in it, and you see into the microscope a lymph node where cancer has invaded.

You set the fracture, you drew the blood, you spun the blood, looked at it under the microscope, you plated the culture, you injected the antiserum.