In Britain, the Glastonbury Canal is believed to be the first post-Roman canal and was built in the middle of the 10th century to link the River Brue at Northover with Glastonbury Abbey, a distance of about 1.75 kilometres (1,900 yd).
A. Yes, but not in detail. âMany scientists use electron, scanning tunneling and atomic force microscopes to view individual DNA molecules,â said Michael W. Davidson, curator of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University.
Now, for the first time, humans have captured direct photos of DNA. Discovery News reports Enzo di Fabrizio, a researcher at the University of Genoa, Italy, has developed a technique that pulls strands of DNA between two miniscule silicone pillars, then photographs them via an electron microscope.