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Award-winning footage shows a baby tardigrade riding one of its greatest predators in a rare microscopic Wild West scene
Tardigrades sometimes eat nematodes, and vice versa, but in this case the baby water bear just need…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen  Â
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Trump's shooting puts scandal-plagued Secret Service under the biggest microscope yet
The Secret Service has faced intense criticism before, but the attempted assassination on Donald Tr…
Brent D. Griffiths  Â
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Human sperm cells do not care about Newton’s third law of motion, and scientists don’t know why
Human sperm cells and the Chlamydomonas algae both move by wiggling their tails, or flagella. While…
Blackhead tweezers under the microscope
Tweezers are often used by professionals to remove blackheads and dirt from the pores. Insider prod…
Foaming lip scrub under a microscope
This bubble lip scrub from Unpa claims to exfoliate lips gently. It doesn't have physical sugar lik…
Blackhead-removing loop has built-in microscope
Loop extractors are commonly used to to help clear out clogged pores and blackheads. The Goodtime V…
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Creepy photos reveal the microscopic world of parasitic creatures thriving on sandy beaches worldwide
Thousands of species of nematodes live in your average handful of sand.Jim Baldwin and Manuel Mundo…
Rebecca Strong  Â
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A microscopic, knockoff Louis Vuitton handbag smaller than a grain of salt just sold for $63,750
The tiny Louis Vuitton knockoff handbag is "narrow enough to pass through the eye of a needle," its…
Sarah Jackson  Â
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The brand behind the viral Big Red Boots has made a microscopic handbag 'smaller than a grain of salt'
MSCHF's tiny handbag is intended to be a commentary on how a functional item has now become little …
Sawdah Bhaimiya  Â
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A scientist scraped a black dot on his forehead and filmed it under a microscope, revealing dozens of crawling face mites
Face mites are tiny creatures that live on just about every human's face. They live, reproduce, and…
Erin Heger  Â
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A woman who had diarrhea up to 40 times a day was misdiagnosed with IBS. It was really an inflammatory bowel disease called microscopic colitis.
After 12 years of symptoms, Victoria Rennison learned she had microscopic colitis. The inflammatory…
Anna Medaris  Â
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The best microscope photos of 2022 reveal a hidden world of dino-bone crystals, human tongue bacteria, and slime mold
The winning photo from the 2022 Nikon Small World competition: the hand of a gecko embryo.Grigorii …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen  Â
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The year's best microscope photos reveal a hidden world, from a pregnant flea to crystals in a dinosaur bone
Jason Kirk, director of a microscope-imaging facility at Baylor College of Medicine, likes to tinke…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen  Â
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Facebook puts ad agencies under the microscope
Insider's top advertising and media stories for May 3.
Lauren Johnson  Â
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The award-winning videos of the microscopic world in 2020
Nikon's Small World in Motion competition showcased the best microscopic footage of the year. Here'…
Alexandra Appolonia,Bob Hunt  Â
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A surgeon looked at 7 clitorises under a microscope and found they're packed with 10,000 nerve fibers. It could be a game-changing discovery.
Dr. Blair Peters performs phalloplasty surgeries for transgender patients. He looked at 7 clitorise…
Julia Naftulin  Â
The award-winning videos of the microscopic world in 2020
Nikon's Small World in Motion competition showcased the best microscopic footage of the year. The b…
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Lynne Spears says the conservatorship had 'microscopic control' over Britney in new court filing
New court documents include details like how the star was "involuntarily moved from her home" and p…
Kim Renfro,Madison Hall  Â
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Videos of tardigrades walking around reveal that these microscopic water bears rely on 'grappling hook' claws
Tardigrades are microscopic creatures with "noodles for legs," as one expert describes it, but they…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen  Â
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A dermatologist explains what we're seeing in our pores under a microscope
Dermatologist Dr. Dustin Portela explains to Insider producer Celia Skvaril what she seeing in her …