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Little things. Big pictures.

9 November 2012 grant 0

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, bone cancer

… Read the rest “Little things. Big pictures.”

Science Art: Tardigrade

30 September 2012 grant 0


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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”

Science Art: Mysis2kils: Mysis Zooplankton by Uwe Kils.

17 June 2012 grant 0

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.”

Science Art: A red blood cell in a capillary, pancreatic tissue – TEM, by Louisa Howard

1 April 2012 grant 0


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Happy blood. April fool blood. Pancreas blood. Turning sweetness to pep blood. Smiling blood.

Very, very enlarged blood.

Image from Wikimedia Commons.

Science Art: Rust Mite, Aceria anthocoptes, by Erbe, Pooley: USDA, ARS, EMU.

13 November 2011 grant b 0


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This is a bug that, like Eeyore, eats thistles. Some call them “free living.” Others call them vagrants. Technically, I mean.

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Science Art: Misc Pollen, by Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility.

21 August 2011 grant b 0


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A bouquet of flowers, and one of the deadliest poisons known to humankind.

From the image’s Wikimedia Commons page:

Pollen from a variety of common plants: sunflower

… Read the rest “Science Art: Misc Pollen, by Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility.”

Science Art: Bulbi olfattorii, by Camillio Golgi, 1875

31 July 2011 grant b 0

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”

Science Art: Western Equine Encephalitis Virus Taken With Cryo-Electron Microscope

13 February 2011 grant b 0

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”

What infection looks like.

21 January 2011 grant b 0

New Scientist has microscopic video of what malaria looks like bursting into a blood cell:

Jake Baum at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia,

… Read the rest “What infection looks like.”

Look inside.

5 January 2011 grant b 0

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.”

One tool, two brain functions.

30 December 2009 grant b 0

PhysOrg reveals a new discovery (using old tools) of a single brain protein that does two very different things to help us think:

Details of the observation in lab mice, published Dec. 24

… Read the rest “One tool, two brain functions.”

Look at you. Up close.

12 November 2009 grant b 1

Pharyngula passes on a very interesting offer:

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.

… Read the rest “Look at you. Up close.”

Science Art: Nicotiana alata upper leaf surface, showing tricomes and stomates.

20 December 2008 grant b 0



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This Lovecraftian landscape is jasmine tobacco. Not waving, photosynthesizing.

From Louisa Howard at the Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility.

Science Art: Bâtonnets

20 July 2008 grant b 0


Wikipedia Commons user "Minutemen" took this polarization-microscope image of liquid crystal.

Science Art: Butterfly Tongue

13 July 2008 grant b 0



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Is it smiling at you?

From Louisa Howard at the Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility.

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