A Sense of Scale

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Science • Sun Nov 15, 2009 at 12:58 pm PST • Views: 283

The University of Utah’s Genetic Science Learning Center has a very cool animated zooming thingie that graphically illustrates the differences in scale between common objects and microscopic objects like cells and viruses, all the way down to a carbon atom: Cell Size and Scale.

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