Selections from Wired’s wonderful gallery of Science as Art: Nanoscale Materials Imitate Everything From Flowers to Frost
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Food under the microscope: scanning electron micrographs of foodstuffs
Click on the images to find out which foods these are.
Show your Valentine how happy she makes you with these dopamine and serotonin necklaces by Anatomology. You can find them in my Thinx Gifts shop.
The winners of the ninth annual Olympus Bioscapes Digital Imaging Competition have been announced and they’re as good as you would expect given that they were selected from from nearly 2,000 entries from 62 countries.
This year’s winner is by Ralph Grimm, a teacher from Australia who made this video of a colony of microscopic rotifers from a lily pad in his pond.
Dallas architect and artist Jacob Haynes went all out for his “microscopic universe” themed Christmas tree this year. His laser-cut micro-organism ornaments are amazing, but his pipe cleaner DNA garland really completes the look:
Alleverythingthatisyou by Mike + Doug Starn
Nikon recently announced its winners for the Nikon Small World Contest. Here are a few of my favorites. Click on the images to see what they are.
There are some freaky looking things in the Wired Creepy Close-Ups: Best Microscope Critter Photos gallery.
Think you can guess what these things are? Wired doesn’t think you can.
Worlds Within Worlds: Incredible Nano Images Invisible to the Naked Eye is a fun gallery from Environmental Graffiti featuring submissions to the FEI Electron Microscope Company photo contest.
Spectacularly colorful microscopy by Igor Siwanowicz
MicROCKScopica by Bernardo Cesare
About the project:
Along with an exciting geological history, every piece of rock hides an universe of colors and shapes, that can be disclosed with a microscope and utilizing polarized light…
Rainbow nanoplankton and a colorful Morpho butterfly wing as seen through a microscope.
ZnO flowers by Francisco Rangel. These ZnO nanoparticles were obtained by hydrothermal synthesis using microwave heating.
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