the Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek scraped some white stuff off his teeth—“as thick as if ’twere batter,” he wrote—and peered at it under one of his handmade microscopes.

In the late 1600s, separated by the North Sea, English polymath Robert Hooke and Dutch cloth-merchant Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looked through their handmade microscopes. What they saw introduced a ...

Handmade cloning, a new way to create genetically ... that allows a skilled technician to grab an egg cell under the microscope, insert a very fine needle to suck out its nucleus, and then use ...

A micro artist has set a new Guinness World Record for creating the smallest handmade sculpture ... the team at Evident ...

Wigan has achieved two world records for the smallest handmade sculptures ... situations where a fly may have flown under the microscope and the breeze from the fly's wings may blow one of ...

Lindon used a specially calibrated light microscope to craft the sculpture ... followed by even more months of painstaking sculpting using a handmade toolset. Lindon worked 6-10 hours at a time ...

Have you ever come across art so small, you need a microscope to see it? Micro artist David Lindon recently set a new Guinness World Record for the smallest handmade sculpture. His artwork of a ...

Listen: Meet the micro artist behind the world's smallest handmade sculpture Mr Lindon ... create tiny objects that can't be seen without a microscope is demanding both physically and mentally.