A microscope image of a shelled plankton. According to research from The University of Texas at Austin, plankton populations like this flourished in the tropics during past global cooling and may ...

With my work, I hope to give people a glimpse in an unseen universe, just around the corner. Jan van IJken using a high-powered microscope to film living plankton.

Image caption, This is one type of plankton viewed through a microscope. In fact, many scientists believe that these tiny plants and animals are amongst the most important in our seas. They may ...