Science Art: Bole cross section of common hazel (Corylus avellana), by Annika Karusion, 2011
This is a microscope’s view of a plant’s stem, uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as part of the Estonian Science Photo Competition of 2011, which I […]
This is a microscope’s view of a plant’s stem, uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as part of the Estonian Science Photo Competition of 2011, which I […]
This is a single microscope from a page of microscopes in the 1797 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, which I found on archive.org. This particular […]
Click to embiggen Not a landscape, nor a texture, but an electrical conductor. From Mr. Pervan’s explanation on Wikimedia Commons: My research is on using […]
Click for rotating ogv video This is a video of a mouse, not yet born, that already has some issues; specifically “Waardenburg-Anophthalmia Syndrome.” It’s originally […]
Popular Science shows us how to make a cheap paper microscope that really works: In the Foldscope, invented by Stanford University engineers, creased paper creates […]
This is the filament of a headlight – a halogen bulb you put in the front end of your car, one of these – as […]
Click to embiggen This seems to be a minute beetle, as pictured in Objects for the microscope, being a popular description of the most instructive […]
A manual from Boston Optical Works, found on archive.org. Elegant lines those instruments had.
Can’t beat NBC’s headline for this: Insects Wear Tiny Spacesuits, for Science: Scanning electron microscopes (SEM) provide incredibly detailed images of biological specimens, but the […]
Click to embiggen Here, have a flower. Up close. Colored in photoshop. Found in the Wikimedia Commons.
Click to embiggen Gaze into the eye of the bee, and the colony gazes into you. This is not honeycomb, but the individual components (ommatidia) […]
Nikon (through Wired) presents some of the most amazing windows onto the microscopic world ever seen: Super-close-ups of garlic, snail fossils, stinging nettle, bat embryos, […]
Click to embiggen Is it cute? It’s a tardigrade, also known as a water bear. That’s a cute name. And they’re tiny, too, which is […]
Dark field microscopy is the art of using indirect light to illuminate specimens under your microscope lens; because the light is indirect, it doesn’t shine […]
Click to embiggen Happy blood. April fool blood. Pancreas blood. Turning sweetness to pep blood. Smiling blood. Very, very enlarged blood. Image from Wikimedia Commons.
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