Britain's King Charles III looks at mosquitos under a microscope during a visit to the Animal and Plant Health Agency in Addlestone, Surrey, Britain March 9, 2023. Andrew Matthews/Pool via REUTERS 

Britain's King Charles III looks at mosquitos under a microscope during a visit to the Animal and Plant Health Agency in Addlestone, Surrey, Britain March 9, 2023. Andrew Matthews/Pool via REUTERS 

Britain's King Charles III looks at mosquitos under a microscope during a visit to the Animal and Plant Health Agency in Addlestone, Surrey, Britain March 9, 2023. Andrew Matthews/Pool via REUTERS 

Researcher Fernanda Avelar Santos looks through a microscope at "plastic rocks" found on Trindade Island in the state of Espirito Santo, at the laboratory of the Federal University of Parana, in Curitiba state of Parana, Brazil March 7, 2023. REUTERS/Rodolfo Buhrer 

Researcher Fernanda Avelar Santos looks through a microscope at "plastic rocks" found on Trindade Island in the state of Espirito Santo, at the laboratory of the Federal University of Parana, in Curitiba state of Parana, Brazil March 7, 2023. REUTERS/Rodolfo Buhrer 

Researcher Fernanda Avelar Santos looks through a microscope at "plastic rocks" found on Trindade Island in the state of Espirito Santo, at the laboratory of the Federal University of Parana, in Curitiba state of Parana, Brazil March 7, 2023. REUTERS/Rodolfo Buhrer 

Neta Shvil of the Sagol School of Neuroscience uses a microscope to look at a locust antenna which is to be used in a newly-developed robot that detects and identifies odours, at the Tel Aviv University, in Tel Aviv, Israel January 25, 2023. REUTERS/Amir Cohen 

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau adjusts a microscope as he tours tech sector firm Xanadu Quantum Technologies with Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada January 23, 2023. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio 

Senior research scientist at Smithsonian National Zoo And Conservation Biology Institute, Mary Hagedorn looks through a microscope at coral spawn at the Australian Institute Of Marine Science in Townsville, Australia December 12, 2022. REUTERS/Jill Gralow 

Senior research scientist at Smithsonian National Zoo And Conservation Biology Institute, Mary Hagedorn looks through a microscope at coral spawn at the Australian Institute Of Marine Science in Townsville, Australia December 12, 2022. REUTERS/Jill Gralow 

Nematodes are seen on a monitor connected to a microscope during a photo opportunity at the lab of Hirotsu Bio Science in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan November 28, 2022. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon 

Hirotsu Bio Science Chief Technical Officer Eric Di Luccio points at nematodes on a monitor connected to a microscope during a photo opportunity at the company's lab in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan November 28, 2022. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon 

Master glassmaker Flavie Serriere Vincent-Petit uses a microscope to test a cleaning solution on a stained glass window from Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral, in Troyes, France September 2, 2022. REUTERS/Manuel Ausloos 

Marine scientist Anna Sanchez Vidal shows microplastics collected from the sea with a microscope at Barcelona's University, during a research project "Surfing for Science" to assess contamination by microplastics on the coastline, in Barcelona, Spain, July 5, 2022. REUTERS/ Albert Gea 

Marine scientist Anna Sanchez Vidal shows microplastics collected from the sea with a microscope at Barcelona's University, during a research project "Surfing for Science" to assess contamination by microplastics on the coastline, in Barcelona, Spain, July 5, 2022. REUTERS/Albert Gea 

Marine scientist Anna Sanchez Vidal shows microplastics collected from the sea with a microscope at Barcelona's University, during a research project "Surfing for Science" to assess contamination by microplastics on the coastline, in Barcelona, Spain, July 5, 2022. REUTERS/ Albert Gea 

Marine scientist Anna Sanchez Vidal shows microplastics collected from the sea with a microscope at Barcelona's University, during a research project "Surfing for Science" to assess contamination by microplastics on the coastline, in Barcelona, Spain, July 5, 2022. REUTERS/Albert Gea 

Eric Marechal, researcher at the Cell and Plant Physiology Laboratory at CEA and coordinator of the ALPALGA consortium, takes a picture with a microscope of the Sanguina nivaloides algae, also known as "snow blood" and which presence accelerates snowmelt, at the Brevent in Chamonix, France, June 14, 2022. Picture taken June 14, 2022. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse 

A view through microscope shows chicken embryo fibroblast cells being used to multiply vaccine viruses of the vaccine company Bavarian Nordic in a laboratory of the company in Martinsried near Munich, Germany, May 24, 2022. The company, headquartered in Denmark, is the only one in the world to have approval for a smallpox vaccine called Jynneos in the U.S. and Imvanex in Europe, which is also effective against monkeypox. REUTERS/Lukas Barth
 

Coins are seen on a microscope at the fraud control department at Bank of Portugal fortified complex in Carregado, Alenquer, Portugal, May 17, 2022. Picture taken May 17, 2022. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes 

Dr. Lawrence Adusei, 64, a pathologist, observes slides through a microscope at the Pathologists Without Borders laboratory in Accra, Ghana May 16, 2022. Picture taken May 16, 2022. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko 

Tal Dvir leading a research team who, as they say, have developed an implant of genetically engineered cells into the injured spinal cord of paralysed mice, that has helped them walk again, looks through a microscope at Tel Aviv University, Israel February 6, 2022. Picture taken February 6, 2022. REUTERS/Amir Cohen 

An employee of Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich sorts oocytes from pigs, seen through a microscope, at the Badersfeld bog test farm in Oberschleissheim, Germany, January 24, 2022. Scientists at LMU are using genetic engineering to grow donor organs in pigs. Picture taken January 24, 2022. REUTERS/Lukas Barth 

An employee of Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich sorts oocytes from pigs at the Badersfeld bog test farm in Oberschleissheim, Germany, January 24, 2022. Scientists at LMU are using genetic engineering to grow donor organs in pigs. Picture taken January 24, 2022. REUTERS/Lukas Barth 

A semiconductor wafer is placed on a microscope at the chip packaging firm Unisem (M) Berhad plant in Ipoh, Malaysia October 15, 2021. REUTERS/Lim Huey Teng 

James Hyslop, Head of Scientific Instruments, Globes and Natural History at Christie's, demonstrates the Darwin Family Microscope, owned and used by the English naturalist and founder of the concept of evolution, Charles Darwin, which will be offered at auction as part of Christie's Classic Week, London, Britain, October 14, 2021. Picture taken October 14. REUTERS/Toby Melville 

James Hyslop, Head of Scientific Instruments, Globes and Natural History at Christie's, demonstrates the Darwin Family Microscope, owned and used by the English naturalist and founder of the concept of evolution, Charles Darwin, which will be offered at auction as part of Christie's Classic Week, London, Britain, October 14, 2021. Picture taken October 14. REUTERS/Toby Melville 

James Hyslop, Head of Scientific Instruments, Globes and Natural History at Christie's, demonstrates the Darwin Family Microscope, owned and used by the English naturalist and founder of the concept of evolution, Charles Darwin, which will be offered at auction as part of Christie's Classic Week, London, Britain, October 14, 2021. Picture taken October 14. REUTERS/Toby Melville 

James Hyslop, Head of Scientific Instruments, Globes and Natural History at Christie's, demonstrates the Darwin Family Microscope, owned and used by the English naturalist and founder of the concept of evolution, Charles Darwin, which will be offered at auction as part of Christie's Classic Week, London, Britain, October 14, 2021. Picture taken October 14. REUTERS/Toby Melville 

James Hyslop, Head of Scientific Instruments, Globes and Natural History at Christie's, demonstrates the Darwin Family Microscope, owned and used by the English naturalist and founder of the concept of evolution, Charles Darwin, which will be offered at auction as part of Christie's Classic Week, London, Britain, October 14, 2021. Picture taken October 14. REUTERS/Toby Melville 

James Hyslop, Head of Scientific Instruments, Globes and Natural History at Christie's, demonstrates the Darwin Family Microscope, owned and used by the English naturalist and founder of the concept of evolution, Charles Darwin, which will be offered at auction as part of Christie's Classic Week, London, Britain, October 14, 2021. Picture taken October 14. REUTERS/Toby Melville 

Children, who do not have access to internet facilities and gadgets, use microscopes as they attend an open-air class outside houses with the walls converted into black boards following the closure of their schools due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at Joba Attpara village in Paschim Bardhaman district in the eastern state of West Bengal, India, September 13, 2021. Picture taken September 13, 2021. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri 

A girl, who does not have access to internet facilities and gadgets, uses a microscope as she attends an open-air class outside a house with its walls converted into black boards following the closure of their schools due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at Joba Attpara village in Paschim Bardhaman district in the eastern state of West Bengal, India, September 13, 2021. Picture taken September 13, 2021. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Deep Narayan Nayak, a teacher, teaches children, who do not have access to internet facilities and gadgets, how to use microscope in an open-air class outside the houses with the walls converted into black boards following the closure of their schools due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at Joba Attpara village in Paschim Bardhaman district in the eastern state of West Bengal, India, September 13, 2021. Picture taken September 13, 2021. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri 

Israeli researcher Eilam Yeini examines a microscope image of a blood vessel tube surrounded by cancer tissues, as part of a brain cancer research that uses patients' cells to make 3D printed models of tumours, at Tel Aviv University, Israel August 17, 2021. Picture taken August 17, 2021. REUTERS/Nir Elias 

Doctor Maria Florencia Veiga looks through a microscope at an embryology laboratory, in a fertility center, in Buenos Aires, Argentina July 15, 2021. Picture taken July 15, 2021. REUTERS/Matias Baglietto 

Professor Hassan Douzi looks at fragments of a meteorite through a microscope in his office at Ibn Zohr university in Agadir, Morocco June 11, 2021. Picture taken June 11, 2021. REUTERS/Abdelhak Balhaki 

A biologist looks through a microscope in Oncompass Medicine's laboratory in Budapest, Hungary, June 2, 2021. Picture taken June 2, 2021. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo 

Austrian ecologist Fritz Schiemer looks through a microscope in Brataj, Albania May 30, 2021. Picture taken May 30, 2021. REUTERS/Florion Goga 

Austrian ecologist Fritz Schiemer looks through a microscope in Brataj, Albania May 30, 2021. Picture taken May 30, 2021. REUTERS/Florion Goga 

Australian Microplastic Assessment Project Research Director Dr Scott Wilson looks at microplastics through a microscope at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, April 15, 2021. Picture taken April 15, 2021. REUTERS/Jill Gralow 

Australian Microplastic Assessment Project Research Director Dr Scott Wilson uses tweezers to find microplastics, under a microscope at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, April 15, 2021. Picture taken April 15, 2021. REUTERS/Jill Gralow 

A waitress prepares a dessert shaped like a microscopic view of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 for a customer at a cafe, as the outbreak continues in Prague, Czech Republic, March 3, 2021. REUTERS/David W Cerny 

A laboratory technician looks through a microscope at CETIM Maroc company in Casablanca, Morocco February 23, 2021. Picture taken February 23, 2021. REUTERS/Abdelhak Balhaki 

Dr. Pedro Range, research assistant professor, looks into a microscope at Qatar University Marine Biology Laboratory, in Doha, Qatar February 14, 2021. Picture taken February 14, 2021. REUTERS/Ibraheem Al Omari 

Dr. Pedro Range, research assistant professor, looks into a microscope at Qatar University Marine Biology Laboratory, in Doha, Qatar February 14, 2021. Picture taken February 14, 2021. REUTERS/Ibraheem Al Omari 

Venizelos Gavrilakis, a senior restorer and conservator from Thessaloniki, Greece, uses a digital microscope while working to clean and restore a 16th century Byzantine Christian icon at a Greek Orthodox church where he set up his laboratory in Istanbul, Turkey December 22, 2020. Picture taken December 22, 2020. REUTERS/Murad Sezer 

Venizelos Gavrilakis, a senior restorer and conservator from Thessaloniki, Greece, uses a digital microscope while working to clean and restore an early 17th century royal door at a Greek Orthodox church where he set up his laboratory in Istanbul, Turkey December 22, 2020. Picture taken December 22, 2020. REUTERS/Murad Sezer 

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson looks at a vaccine sample through a microscope whilst visiting the quality control laboratory of Oxford Biomedica, where batches of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine are tested, in Oxford, Britain January 18, 2021. Heathcliff O'Malley/Pool via REUTERS 

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson looks at a vaccine sample through a microscope whilst visiting the quality control laboratory of Oxford Biomedica, where batches of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine are tested, in Oxford, Britain January 18, 2021. Heathcliff O'Malley/Pool via REUTERS 

What's for dinner? Lego sushi, credit card burgers, or a well-done piece of PVC pipe? These examples may sound extreme, but can easily represent over time the cumulative amount of microscopic pieces of plastic we consume every day. People could be ingesting the equivalent of a credit card of plastic a week, a 2019 study by WWF International concluded, mainly in plastic-infused drinking water but also via food like shellfish, which tends to be eaten whole so the plastic in their digestive systems is also consumed. Reuters used the findings of the study to illustrate what this amount of plastic actually looks like over various periods of time. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/Illustration SEARCH "KYUNG-HOON PLASTIC" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

What's for dinner? Lego sushi, credit card burgers, or a well-done piece of PVC pipe? These examples may sound extreme, but can easily represent over time the cumulative amount of microscopic pieces of plastic we consume every day. People could be ingesting the equivalent of a credit card of plastic a week, a 2019 study by WWF International concluded, mainly in plastic-infused drinking water but also via food like shellfish, which tends to be eaten whole so the plastic in their digestive systems is also consumed. Reuters used the findings of the study to illustrate what this amount of plastic actually looks like over various periods of time. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/Illustration SEARCH "KYUNG-HOON PLASTIC" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

A medical specialist uses a microscope as she examines patients' samples in a laboratory inside a pavilion of the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy (VDNH), which was converted into a temporary hospital for people suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Moscow, Russia November 17, 2020. Picture taken November 17, 2020. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov 

Aisha Abdi Mohamed, a laboratory technician, uses a microscope inside the Medipark Diagnostics lab that runs tests for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Mogadishu, Somalia October 14, 2020. Picture taken October 14, 2020. REUTERS/Feisal Omar 

Britain's Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge uses a microscope to look at cells from a reproductive tract, during a visit to the Institute of Reproductive and Development Biology, at Imperial College in London, October 14, 2020. The Duchess of Cambridge visited the London research centre to hear about the work that national charity Tommy's are doing to reduce rates of miscarriage, stillbirth and premature birth. Kirsty Wigglesworth/Pool via REUTERS 

A confectioner arranges a cake shaped like a microscopic view of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 at a bakery, amid concerns about the spread of the disease (COVID-19), in Prague, Czech Republic, October 6, 2020. Picture taken October 6, 2020. REUTERS/David W Cerny 

A confectioner arranges a cake shaped like a microscopic view of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 at a bakery, amid concerns about the spread of the disease (COVID-19), in Prague, Czech Republic, October 6, 2020. Picture taken October 6, 2020. REUTERS/David W Cerny 

Cakes shaped like a microscopic view of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 are seen at a bakery, amid concerns about the spread of the disease (COVID-19), in Prague, Czech Republic, October 6, 2020. Picture taken October 6, 2020. REUTERS/David W Cerny