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Smaller than you think
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Microscopic World
Your Mattress is a Buffet for Skin-Eating Mites
Microscopic dust mites survive entirely on the dead skin cells you shed every day.

Microscopic World
Spider Silk Stronger Than Steel
Gram for gram, a single dragline thread is tougher than Kevlar and stronger than high-grade steel — and we still can't mass-produce it.

Microscopic World
Why Hairworms Are One Of Nature's Creepiest Creatures
A grasshopper walks calmly to the edge of a pond and jumps in. It can't swim.

Microscopic World
The Animal That Can Survive Space
A satellite opened its door in orbit and exposed these animals to vacuum. Most came back alive.

Microscopic World
The fungus that turns ants into zombies
A parasitic fungus hijacks an ant's body, kills it, and grows out of its head.

Microscopic World
Tardigrades survived the vacuum of space
We put water bears in orbit and they shrugged.

Microscopic World
Your face is covered in microscopic mites
You are renting your skin to thousands of tiny eight-legged tenants. They poop on it.
