Ocean microscope (IMAGE)

Stanford University

Ocean microscope

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Stanford researchers Manu Prakash and Deepak Krishnamurthy use a rotating microscope that they developed to observe for the first time a single-cell diatom, a type of plankton, as it changes its density to move through water.

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Hongquan Li

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