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 […]
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Science Art: Culpeper’s Microscope, 1797.
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 […]
Science Art: 3D Printed Copper Surface, vol. 1, by David Pervan, 2018.
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 […]
Science Art: Optical projection tomography: OPT analysis of Smoc1 expression in wild-type E9.5 mouse embryo, 2011
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 […]
This origami microscope costs less than a dollar – and you can magnify stuff by 2,000 times.
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 […]
Science Art: Philips H7 headlamp . Mo-cover filament polycrystals, by Ivan.V.Nemtsev
This is the filament of a headlight – a halogen bulb you put in the front end of your car, one of these – as […]
Science Art: Beetle, magnified 26 diameters, 1871.
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 […]
Science Art: No. 1 and No. 2, from Primer of the Clinical Microscope, 1879.
A manual from Boston Optical Works, found on archive.org. Elegant lines those instruments had.
Insects in tiny space suits. Real ones. In a vacuum.
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 […]
Science Art: Compound flower with pollen no scale bar, by Philippa Uwins
Click to embiggen Here, have a flower. Up close. Colored in photoshop. Found in the Wikimedia Commons.
Science Art: Surface of a Western honeybee’s eye, by Janice Carr and Connie Flowers.
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) […]
Little things. Big pictures.
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, […]
Science Art: Tardigrade
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 […]
Science Art: Mysis2kils: Mysis Zooplankton by Uwe Kils.
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 […]
Science Art: A red blood cell in a capillary, pancreatic tissue – TEM, by Louisa Howard
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.