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It’s relatively easy to understand how optical microscopes work at low magnifications: one lens magnifies an image, the next magnifies the already-magnified image, and so on until it reaches the eye ...

Everyday things look quite different under a microscope — including the leaf of a southern live oak tree, pictured above. Jason Kirk, director of a microscope-imaging facility at Baylor College of ...