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) […]
microscopy
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.
Science Art: Rust Mite, Aceria anthocoptes, by Erbe, Pooley: USDA, ARS, EMU.
Click to embiggen This is a bug that, like Eeyore, eats thistles. Some call them “free living.” Others call them vagrants. Technically, I mean. [via]
Science Art: Misc Pollen, by Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility.
Click to embiggen A bouquet of flowers, and one of the deadliest poisons known to humankind. From the image’s Wikimedia Commons page: Pollen from a […]
Science Art: Bulbi olfattorii, by Camillio Golgi, 1875
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 […]
Science Art: Western Equine Encephalitis Virus Taken With Cryo-Electron Microscope
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 […]
What infection looks like.
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 […]
Look inside.
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… […]
One tool, two brain functions.
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 […]
Look at you. Up close.
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 […]
Science Art: Nicotiana alata upper leaf surface, showing tricomes and stomates.
Click to embiggen vastly This Lovecraftian landscape is jasmine tobacco. Not waving, photosynthesizing. From Louisa Howard at the Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility.
Science Art: Bâtonnets
Wikipedia Commons user "Minutemen" took this polarization-microscope image of liquid crystal.