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Scientific illustration of a star algae, geometric green with a purple outline, against the black expanse of a peat bog.

Science Art: La Esperanza Del Río, Micrasterias Truncata, Turberas De Peñayerre

17 February 2025 grant 0

This is a star algae, Micrasterias truncata, as photographed very recently and uploaded to the Flickr Commons collection, “Encyclopedia of Life images.”

The description… Read the rest “Science Art: La Esperanza Del Río, Micrasterias Truncata, Turberas De Peñayerre”

Scientific illustration of science, personified, contemplating beside her microscope.

Science Art: Le miscroscope [La Science], 1908.

10 February 2025 grant 0

This is a metal engraving by Charles Philippe Pillet, which I found in the Paris Museums Collections.

It’s considered a “numismatic” piece, but I don’t believe… Read the rest “Science Art: Le miscroscope [La Science], 1908.”

Scientific illustration of a root seen through a microscope, all purple and magenta in round geometries. In the 1970s, this looked like the future.

Science Art: Cross Section of a Young Root, by Roman Vishniac, c. 1978.

22 December 2024 grant 0

This is an image from “the birth of photomicrography.” It’s also an image from the fondly remembered Omni magazine, an issue from 1978 which I found on archive.org. … Read the rest “Science Art: Cross Section of a Young Root, by Roman Vishniac, c. 1978.”

Scientific illustration of a tardigrade, a kleiner Wasserbär or little water bear, as drawn by Rev. Johann August Ephraim Goeze.

Science Art: Kleiner Wasserbär, 1773

21 October 2024 grant 0

This is what German pastor Johann August Ephraim Goeze dubbed a “tiny water-bear” when he first spotted it among the animacules in the droplets of stagnant water under his … Read the rest “Science Art: Kleiner Wasserbär, 1773”

Scientific illustration of plant life under the microscope

Science Art: Bole cross section of common hazel (Corylus avellana), by Annika Karusion, 2011

12 June 2022 grant 0

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 can only assume was the forerunner… Read the rest “Science Art: Bole cross section of common hazel (Corylus avellana), by Annika Karusion, 2011”

Scientific illustration from the 1797 Encyclopedia Britannica of a compound microscope, an 18th century scientific instrument.

Science Art: Culpeper’s Microscope, 1797.

3 April 2022 grant 0

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 one is a compound microscope. It’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Culpeper’s Microscope, 1797.”

scientific illustration of metal under a microscope

Science Art: 3D Printed Copper Surface, vol. 1, by David Pervan, 2018.

12 April 2020 grant 0

scientific illustration of metal under a microscopeClick 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 3D printing to make conductive

… Read the rest “Science Art: 3D Printed Copper Surface, vol. 1, by David Pervan, 2018.”
Scientific illustration of a mouse embryo, taken with optical projection tomography, showing how loss of the BMP Antagonist expresses itself in syndactyly - in other words, a syndrome in which gene differences affect how fingers and toes grow.

Science Art: Optical projection tomography: OPT analysis of Smoc1 expression in wild-type E9.5 mouse embryo, 2011

9 February 2020 grant 0

Scientific illustration of a mouse embryo, taken with optical projection tomography, showing how loss of the BMP Antagonist expresses itself in syndactyly - in other words, a syndrome in which gene differences affect how fingers and toes grow.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… Read the rest “Science Art: Optical projection tomography: OPT analysis of Smoc1 expression in wild-type E9.5 mouse embryo, 2011”

This origami microscope costs less than a dollar – and you can magnify stuff by 2,000 times.

7 February 2017 grant 0

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 a scaffold, which holds

… Read the rest “This origami microscope costs less than a dollar – and you can magnify stuff by 2,000 times.”

Science Art: Philips H7 headlamp . Mo-cover filament polycrystals, by Ivan.V.Nemtsev

19 June 2016 grant 0

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This is the filament of a headlight – a halogen bulb you put in the front end of your car, one of these – as seen many times its proper size under an electron microscope.

Tiny little… Read the rest “Science Art: Philips H7 headlamp . Mo-cover filament polycrystals, by Ivan.V.Nemtsev”

Science Art: Beetle, magnified 26 diameters, 1871.

14 June 2015 grant 0

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This seems to be a minute beetle, as pictured in Objects for the microscope, being a popular description of the most instructive and beautiful subjects for exhibition… Read the rest “Science Art: Beetle, magnified 26 diameters, 1871.”

Science Art: No. 1 and No. 2, from Primer of the Clinical Microscope, 1879.

15 March 2015 grant 0

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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.

29 January 2015 grant 0

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,

… Read the rest “Insects in tiny space suits. Real ones. In a vacuum.”

Science Art: Compound flower with pollen no scale bar, by Philippa Uwins

1 June 2014 grant 0

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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.

9 March 2014 grant 0

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Gaze into the eye of the bee, and the colony gazes into you. This is not honeycomb, but the individual components (ommatidia) of a bee’s compound eye.

Full credit … Read the rest “Science Art: Surface of a Western honeybee’s eye, by Janice Carr and Connie Flowers.”

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