Fungi are the hidden architects of our ecosystems, acting as everything from helpful partners for plants to aggressive ...

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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).