Cheese fungus, head lice, human sperm, a bee eye, a microplastic bobble: scientific photographer Steve Gschmeissner has imaged them all under the probing lens of a scanning electron microscope (SEM).

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Watch nutrients flow through an underground circulatory system that connects fungi and plants. A new study shows how these networks form. 0:10 Researchers are trying to understand the underground ...