These photographs are from Microcosmos, a book by Brandon Broll, with extraordinary images of insects, human body parts and everyday objects, magnified between 20 x and 22 million times with a scanning electron microscope A wood or heathland ant, holding a microchip The surface of a Read-Only Memory silicon microchip Eyelash hairs growing from the surface of human skin The surface of a strawberry Bacteria on the surface of a human tongue Human sperm The nylon hooks and loops of velcro Household dust which includes cat fur, twisted synthetic fibers insect scales, a pollen grain, and plant and insect remains The weave of a nylon stocking The end of the tongue (proboscis) of a hummingbird hawkmoth The head of a mosquito A human head louse clinging to a hair The eight eyes on the head of a Mexican red-kneed tarantula Cut hairs and shaving foam between two razor blades Cigarette paper The surface of a rusty metal nail The head of a cauliflower The fungus Aspergillus fumigatus Mushroom spores Butterfly eggs on a raspberry plant Fimbriae of a Fallopian tube A daisy bud Calcium phosphate crystal The shell of a foraminiferan |