High speed micrography – stinging nematocysts of a jelly fish

Maybe this is the reason why we do microscopy –
“It’s the joy of actually coming and going: ‘I just saw something that nobody else has ever seen before.'”

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  1. The stinging nettle(Urtica dioica)works in a similar fashion, though the plant is static… Contact with the trichomes fixed to the stems causes sometimes painful burning sensations that can last for hours…

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