Beyond the Human Eye

These beautiful cells come from the midrib of a banana leaf. Each is shaped like a 6- or 7-armed star, with its arms joined to the arms of s...

This is the  fourth in the series of images of some of the organisms found in just a few drops of water collected from a pond in a disused...

This is the third in the series of images of some of the organisms found in just a few drops of water collected from a pond in a disused qu...

This is the second in the series of images of some of the organisms found in just a few drops of water collected from a pond in a disused q...

A few days ago, when we were out walking in Weardale, I collected a small sample of water from a pond in a disused q...

This cross section of the stem of a soybean seedling shows the early stages in a developmental process that will produce a stem capable of s...

I've long been fascinated by heliozoans aka 'sun animacules' and have posted on them before , but thought I would again because...

A couple of weeks ago I posted some pictures of garden snail eggs that had been found by Chantelle Kerr, one of our research students, that...

There aren’t many insect species that live in the intertidal zone. The two you’re most likely to encounter are the springtail called Anurida...

Some of our project students have been working on the feeding habits of garden snails Helix aspersa and one of our postgrads, Chantelle Ker...