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The art of staring at the invisible until it confesses its secrets.
means The science and technique of using instruments to see things too small for the naked eye.
from From Greek mikros (small) plus skopein (to look at), coined in the 1650s when lenses first humbled humanity by revealing entire worlds in pond water.
First viewAntonie van Leeuwenhoek saw bacteria in 1676 dental scrapings.
Beyond lightElectron microscopes use beams, not photons, for atomic detail.
Nobel magnetSuper-resolution microscopy won the 2014 chemistry prize.
Hard limitLight microscopes max out near half a wavelength.