Dan Oron

Hasilon's eyes - watching the bottom of the sea even in the dark. Photo: shutterstock

in the eye of the chasilon

Much more detail: nanocrystals as they are seen using the microscopy method developed by scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science (right) and as they are seen under a normal light microscope (left). Scale: 0.5 micron

Things you see in the small

Close-up of a zebrafish eye. A sophisticated and accurate vision system

A look at the fish's eye

The sapphire of the sea. Illustration: German nature artist Ernst Heckel, (1834-1919). From Wikipedia

How did the sea sapphire disappear?

Nanocrystals that convert two low-energy photons into one high-energy photon, under an electron microscope

Energy from red to green