The Radiolaria Lounge: Part of the Collection of the Radiolaria Room of the Micropolitan Museum. Photos by Wim van Egmond
Posts marked microscopy
Selections from Wired’s wonderful gallery of Science as Art: Nanoscale Materials Imitate Everything From Flowers to Frost
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 2012 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge have recently been announced. The top image was both the Photography Winner and the Peoples Choice Winner. See the other winners over on the National Foundation of Science site and click on the images for their descriptions.
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.
Contemplate the beauty of caffeine while you consume it with these photo mugs featuring coloured scanning electron micrographics (SEM) of anhydrous caffeine crystals (1,3,7-trimethylxanthine) made by the Science Photo Library. They’re available in my Thinx Gifts Amazon store.
Images from Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century by Carl Schoonover
About the book:
Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century (Abrams, November 2010) follows the fascinating exploration of the brain through images. These beautiful black-and-white and vibrantly colored images, many resembling abstract art, are employed daily by scientists around the world, but most have never before been seen by the general public. From medieval sketches and 19th-century drawings by the founder of modern neuroscience to images produced using state-of-the-art techniques, readers are invited to witness the fantastic networks in the brain.
Each chapter in Portraits of the Mind addresses a different set of techniques for studying the brain, and each is introduced with an essay by a leading scientist in that field of study. Extended captions provide detailed explanations of each image as well as the major insights gained by scientists over the course of the past twenty years. The result is a peek at the mind’s innermost workings, helping readers to understand, and offering clues about what may lie ahead.
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…
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