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.”
Nikon (through Wired) presents some of the most amazing windows onto the microscopic world ever seen:
… Read the rest “Little things. Big pictures.”Super-close-ups of garlic, snail fossils, stinging nettle, bat embryos, bone cancer
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 part of cuteness, usually. Less than a millimeter… Read the rest “Science Art: Tardigrade”
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 into the microscope,… Read the rest “Science Art: Mysis2kils: Mysis Zooplankton by Uwe Kils.”
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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A bouquet of flowers, and one of the deadliest poisons known to humankind.
From the image’s Wikimedia Commons page:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Misc Pollen, by Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility.”Pollen from a variety of common plants: sunflower
From the mustachioed microscope-gazer who gave us the method (for staining specimens), the receptor (inside our tendons) and the bodies (inside our cells) comes a hypnotic look inside… Read the rest “Science Art: Bulbi olfattorii, by Camillio Golgi, 1875”
This is the infectious microbe (alive? not alive? who knows?) that causes Western equine encephalitis. It’s a deadly virus.
I can remember when they said taking pictures of viruses… Read the rest “Science Art: Western Equine Encephalitis Virus Taken With Cryo-Electron Microscope”
New Scientist has microscopic video of what malaria looks like bursting into a blood cell:
… Read the rest “What infection looks like.”Jake Baum at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia,
This isn’t a discovery so much as a great resource (and wonderful source of visuals), but you should really look inside The Cell Image Library… and look inside your cells.
Really.… Read the rest “Look inside.”
PhysOrg reveals a new discovery (using old tools) of a single brain protein that does two very different things to help us think:
… Read the rest “One tool, two brain functions.”Details of the observation in lab mice, published Dec. 24
Pharyngula passes on a very interesting offer:
… Read the rest “Look at you. Up close.”I had my doubts about this; I got an offer from ASPEX corporation to let people get free scanning electron micrographs of just about anything.
This Lovecraftian landscape is jasmine tobacco. Not waving, photosynthesizing.
From Louisa Howard at the Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility.
Wikipedia Commons user "Minutemen" took this polarization-microscope image of liquid crystal.
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