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]
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]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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… […]
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 […]
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 […]
Click to embiggen vastly 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.
Click to embiggen vastly Is it smiling at you? From Louisa Howard at the Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility.
This is how small they’re making machines nowadays: Dwarfed by a spider mite. Lubricated by gases. Photo courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories, SUMMiTTM Technologies, www.mems.sandia.gov
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