April 9, 2013

chronicsci:

Green Onion

*Note to self: invest in a higher resolution microscope-camera.

In scientific terms, perhaps. In artistic terms? I’m not so sure. There’s something very beautiful about these microphotographs, don’t you think? ~AR

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January 22, 2013
I had so many zebrafish in my time as an erstwhile aquarium owner. Had I only known they were hanging out with such cool green goo. Check, check, a-check-it-out. (I’m the worst.) —MN biocanvas: A biofilm of algae from a zebrafish tank at 40-times magnification. Image by Jonathan Franks, University of Pittsburgh.

I had so many zebrafish in my time as an erstwhile aquarium owner. Had I only known they were hanging out with such cool green goo. Check, check, a-check-it-out. (I’m the worst.) —MN

biocanvas:

A biofilm of algae from a zebrafish tank at 40-times magnification.

Image by Jonathan Franks, University of Pittsburgh.

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December 29, 2012

From the top you’re seeing red algae, the spore-filled sporangia of an east-coast fern, a delphinium seed, and the scales of a butterfly wing. You really ought to click through and see the rest of these incredible images! ~AR

staceythinx:

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.

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December 3, 2012
And the line between art and science continues to blur. I figured we haven’t reblogged anything out of an electron microscope for at least a few hours, so click through for a whole stack of technicolor wonders born of plant bits. —MN jtotheizzoe: The Beauty Of Microscopic Plant Seeds Vincent Van Gogh painted sunflowers, and Claude Monet painted irises. Rob Kesseler paints seeds, only he uses electrons to do so. Working with the Millennium Seed Bank, Kesseler takes scanning electron microscope images of plant seeds on the microscopic scale. He digitally paints them in order to bring out their unique physical and biological traits: Leafy wings that evolved to carry them aloft on the wind, spikes to hitch a ride on an animal’s coat, or a burly coat to survive a trip through the digestive system of a herbivore. Check out more of his images at Co.Design or at his full Phytopic gallery.

And the line between art and science continues to blur. I figured we haven’t reblogged anything out of an electron microscope for at least a few hours, so click through for a whole stack of technicolor wonders born of plant bits. —MN

jtotheizzoe:

The Beauty Of Microscopic Plant Seeds

Vincent Van Gogh painted sunflowers, and Claude Monet painted irises. Rob Kesseler paints seeds, only he uses electrons to do so.

Working with the Millennium Seed Bank, Kesseler takes scanning electron microscope images of plant seeds on the microscopic scale. He digitally paints them in order to bring out their unique physical and biological traits: Leafy wings that evolved to carry them aloft on the wind, spikes to hitch a ride on an animal’s coat, or a burly coat to survive a trip through the digestive system of a herbivore.

Check out more of his images at Co.Design or at his full Phytopic gallery.

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November 13, 2012
A much better view of those trichomes I was rattling on about a while back. They don’t look nearly as painful as they are when met in person. —MN rhamphotheca: Stinging nettle trichome (spine) on a leaf vein. (by photographer Charles Krebs)

A much better view of those trichomes I was rattling on about a while back. They don’t look nearly as painful as they are when met in person. —MN

rhamphotheca:

Stinging nettle trichome (spine) on a leaf vein.

(by photographer Charles Krebs)

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November 11, 2012
More strange and expressive mugs from the stems of plants. Can’t get enough of ‘em. —MN sciencenote: Mr. Gerd Guenther Duesseldorf, Germany Specimen: Stem section of Fragesia sp., garden bamboo, showing a vascular bundle Technique: Fluorescence, ca. 200x

More strange and expressive mugs from the stems of plants. Can’t get enough of ‘em. —MN

sciencenote:

Mr. Gerd Guenther

Duesseldorf, Germany
Specimen: Stem section of Fragesia sp., garden bamboo, showing a vascular bundle
Technique: Fluorescence, ca. 200x

(via thesciencenotebooks)

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November 4, 2012
If the people at the NYBG’s labs would let me use their electron microscopes, there’s no telling what I’d be staring at. For reference, these are fibers on top of evening-primrose pollen, only at 7000x magnification. —MN thephilosophiles: EMP of pollen http://www.flickr.com/photos/fei_company/8097148416/

If the people at the NYBG’s labs would let me use their electron microscopes, there’s no telling what I’d be staring at. For reference, these are fibers on top of evening-primrose pollen, only at 7000x magnification. —MN

thephilosophiles:

EMP of pollen

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fei_company/8097148416/

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August 12, 2012
rhamphotheca: Purslane (Portulaca sp.) seed (photo by Yanping Wang, Beijing Planetarium in Beijing, China) (via: Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition) Not only is purslane one of the more healthful edible weeds out there, but its seeds, through a stereomicroscope, look like the tessellated meeting of a jewel beetle, a fire opal, and the inside of an abalone shell. —MN

rhamphotheca:

Purslane (Portulaca sp.) seed

(photo by Yanping Wang, Beijing Planetarium in Beijing, China)

(via: Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition)

Not only is purslane one of the more healthful edible weeds out there, but its seeds, through a stereomicroscope, look like the tessellated meeting of a jewel beetle, a fire opal, and the inside of an abalone shell. —MN

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July 25, 2012
brilliantbotany: Palynology is the study of pollen, or, more specifically, “the study of microscopic objects of macromolecular organic composition (i.e. compounds of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen), not capable of dissolution in hydrochloric or hydrofluoric acids.” This includes pollen and spores, among other things.Pollen is extremely resilient, and scientists can extract ancient pollen from compacted earth or lake beds, and analyze the composition, to see what plants existed during a certain time period. Source: W.A.S. Sarjeant, 2002. ‘As chimney-sweeps, come to dust’: a history of palynology to 1970.  Behold, the cause of so much beauty. And, in many cases, so much business for tissue companies. —MN

brilliantbotany:

Palynology is the study of pollen, or, more specifically, “the study of microscopic objects of macromolecular organic composition (i.e. compounds of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen), not capable of dissolution in hydrochloric or hydrofluoric acids.” This includes pollen and spores, among other things.
Pollen is extremely resilient, and scientists can extract ancient pollen from compacted earth or lake beds, and analyze the composition, to see what plants existed during a certain time period.

 Source: W.A.S. Sarjeant, 2002. ‘As chimney-sweeps, come to dust’: a history of palynology to 1970. 

Behold, the cause of so much beauty. And, in many cases, so much business for tissue companies. —MN

(Source: brilliantbotany)

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July 8, 2012
This microscopic image of a pollinated Amarylis stigma is really fascinating. I mean, when you like closely at the stigmas (the tip of a pistil) of many flowers, they look a little textured, and this makes it obvious why; it’s kind of like Velcro to capture the pollen.  Plus, I just had to reblog this, I mean I can’t let Matt have all the fun with the microphotography! heythereuniverse: Pollination Amarylis stigma (pink) with pollen grains (yellow) adhering to sticky glands on its surface. Some pollen tubes (olive green) carrying genetic material can be seen on top of the stigma. Imaged in low vacuum without prior dehydration. Dynamic focus and long working distance used for depth of focus. Courtesy of Paul Gunning

This microscopic image of a pollinated Amarylis stigma is really fascinating. I mean, when you like closely at the stigmas (the tip of a pistil) of many flowers, they look a little textured, and this makes it obvious why; it’s kind of like Velcro to capture the pollen.  Plus, I just had to reblog this, I mean I can’t let Matt have all the fun with the microphotography!

heythereuniverse:

Pollination

Amarylis stigma (pink) with pollen grains (yellow) adhering to sticky glands on its surface. Some pollen tubes (olive green) carrying genetic material can be seen on top of the stigma. Imaged in low vacuum without prior dehydration. Dynamic focus and long working distance used for depth of focus.

Courtesy of Paul Gunning

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February 18, 2012
Even with artificial means helping it along, the distribution of color and light in this image sparks my imagination. Like a far more organic TRON. —MN magnified-world: Transverse section of soybean stem showing the distribution of cellulose in blue and lignin in yellow at 50x magnification.  8th place in the 1985 Nikon Small World Competition.

Even with artificial means helping it along, the distribution of color and light in this image sparks my imagination. Like a far more organic TRON. —MN

magnified-world:

Transverse section of soybean stem showing the distribution of cellulose in blue and lignin in yellow at 50x magnification.  8th place in the 1985 Nikon Small World Competition.

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February 10, 2012
Yes, yes, more microphotography reblogification. But you know you love to see the similarities between the sizable and the scanty. magnified-world: Asexual reproductive cells of green algae at 24x magnification.  7th place in the 1984 Nikon Small World Competition.

Yes, yes, more microphotography reblogification. But you know you love to see the similarities between the sizable and the scanty.

magnified-world:

Asexual reproductive cells of green algae at 24x magnification.  7th place in the 1984 Nikon Small World Competition.

(Source: nikonsmallworld.com)

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January 23, 2012
Funny how microphotography can lend fairytale color and translucence to such everyday things. I love moss. (I really love moss.) —MN jeffreyknox: A 60x view of a moss I found growing in a potted plant in the nursery where I work.  I went to a talk yesterday about landscaping with mosses.  I think this one is Rhodobryum roseum, but I’m not sure. 

Funny how microphotography can lend fairytale color and translucence to such everyday things. I love moss. (I really love moss.) —MN

jeffreyknox:

A 60x view of a moss I found growing in a potted plant in the nursery where I work.  I went to a talk yesterday about landscaping with mosses.  I think this one is Rhodobryum roseum, but I’m not sure. 

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