Turn Your Smartphone Into A Microscope

This morning I played around with a pretty cool trick. You can turn your smartphone camera into a “microscope” of sorts using a tiny water droplet! I used my fingertip to place a droplet of water over the outer glass of my iPhone lens, juuuuust small enough to cover the glass and be held on by surface tension. Then just hold something up really close to the lens! It works in video or still mode, and I found that having the light on can help.

I chose to investigate a very small and very well preserved Tyrannosaur that I dug up.

I don’t think I need to tell you to BE CAREFUL and don’t hold me responsible if you get water in your phone. Just a dab’ll do ya. Also, best not to mention this to anyone at Ye Olde Smartphone Shoppe, or wherever you buy your gear.

Show me what you zoom in on!!

Best Microscope Videos of 2012 as chosen by Nikon’s Small World Life is not static. It’s a series of ons and offs, back and forths, ins and outs, heres and theres, growth and death. Sure, we can learn a great deal from static study on scales beyond the macro (just ask Robert Hooke), but when you witness the dynamic nature of the finer scales of life … man, that’s where it’s at. Winners via science-junkie: *1st Place: Sensing Danger*Olena Kamenyeva, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.Subject: Recruitment of neutrophils to the site of laser damage in mouse inguinal lymph node. *2nd Place: Sperm From Two Males Competing*Stefan Lüpold, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.Subject: Sperm from two males competing within reproductive tract of a female fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). Magnification: 400x. *3rd Place: Growing Complexity in the Kidney*Nils Lindstrom, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.Subject: Complexity of ureteric bud branching and nephron formation. *Honorable Mention: The Rotifer Limnias melicerta*Fengzhu Xiong, Micropolitan Museum Rotterdam, The Netherlands.Subject: Limnias melicerta (a rotifer). Magnification: 400x. (More about these amazing captures at Wired.com)
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Best Microscope Videos of 2012 as chosen by Nikon’s Small World Life is not static. It’s a series of ons and offs, back and forths, ins and outs, heres and theres, growth and death. Sure, we can learn a great deal from static study on scales beyond the macro (just ask Robert Hooke), but when you witness the dynamic nature of the finer scales of life … man, that’s where it’s at. Winners via science-junkie: *1st Place: Sensing Danger*Olena Kamenyeva, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.Subject: Recruitment of neutrophils to the site of laser damage in mouse inguinal lymph node. *2nd Place: Sperm From Two Males Competing*Stefan Lüpold, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.Subject: Sperm from two males competing within reproductive tract of a female fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). Magnification: 400x. *3rd Place: Growing Complexity in the Kidney*Nils Lindstrom, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.Subject: Complexity of ureteric bud branching and nephron formation. *Honorable Mention: The Rotifer Limnias melicerta*Fengzhu Xiong, Micropolitan Museum Rotterdam, The Netherlands.Subject: Limnias melicerta (a rotifer). Magnification: 400x. (More about these amazing captures at Wired.com)
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Best Microscope Videos of 2012 as chosen by Nikon’s Small World Life is not static. It’s a series of ons and offs, back and forths, ins and outs, heres and theres, growth and death. Sure, we can learn a great deal from static study on scales beyond the macro (just ask Robert Hooke), but when you witness the dynamic nature of the finer scales of life … man, that’s where it’s at. Winners via science-junkie: *1st Place: Sensing Danger*Olena Kamenyeva, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.Subject: Recruitment of neutrophils to the site of laser damage in mouse inguinal lymph node. *2nd Place: Sperm From Two Males Competing*Stefan Lüpold, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.Subject: Sperm from two males competing within reproductive tract of a female fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). Magnification: 400x. *3rd Place: Growing Complexity in the Kidney*Nils Lindstrom, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.Subject: Complexity of ureteric bud branching and nephron formation. *Honorable Mention: The Rotifer Limnias melicerta*Fengzhu Xiong, Micropolitan Museum Rotterdam, The Netherlands.Subject: Limnias melicerta (a rotifer). Magnification: 400x. (More about these amazing captures at Wired.com)
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Best Microscope Videos of 2012 as chosen by Nikon’s Small World Life is not static. It’s a series of ons and offs, back and forths, ins and outs, heres and theres, growth and death. Sure, we can learn a great deal from static study on scales beyond the macro (just ask Robert Hooke), but when you witness the dynamic nature of the finer scales of life … man, that’s where it’s at. Winners via science-junkie: *1st Place: Sensing Danger*Olena Kamenyeva, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.Subject: Recruitment of neutrophils to the site of laser damage in mouse inguinal lymph node. *2nd Place: Sperm From Two Males Competing*Stefan Lüpold, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.Subject: Sperm from two males competing within reproductive tract of a female fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). Magnification: 400x. *3rd Place: Growing Complexity in the Kidney*Nils Lindstrom, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.Subject: Complexity of ureteric bud branching and nephron formation. *Honorable Mention: The Rotifer Limnias melicerta*Fengzhu Xiong, Micropolitan Museum Rotterdam, The Netherlands.Subject: Limnias melicerta (a rotifer). Magnification: 400x. (More about these amazing captures at Wired.com)
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Best Microscope Videos of 2012 as chosen by Nikon’s Small World

Life is not static. It’s a series of ons and offs, back and forths, ins and outs, heres and theres, growth and death. Sure, we can learn a great deal from static study on scales beyond the macro (just ask Robert Hooke), but when you witness the dynamic nature of the finer scales of life … man, that’s where it’s at.

Winners via science-junkie:

*1st Place: Sensing Danger*
Olena Kamenyeva, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
Subject: Recruitment of neutrophils to the site of laser damage in mouse inguinal lymph node.

*2nd Place: Sperm From Two Males Competing*
Stefan Lüpold, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.
Subject: Sperm from two males competing within reproductive tract of a female fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). Magnification: 400x.

*3rd Place: Growing Complexity in the Kidney*
Nils Lindstrom, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Subject: Complexity of ureteric bud branching and nephron formation.

*Honorable Mention: The Rotifer Limnias melicerta*
Fengzhu Xiong, Micropolitan Museum Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Subject: Limnias melicerta (a rotifer). Magnification: 400x.


(More about these amazing captures at Wired.com)

Paying VERY Close Attention To What You Eat Carin Alpert uses a scanning electron microscope to take a very close look at the foods we consume. Turns out that delicious things are rather extraterrestrial and terrifying when viewed on the microscopic scale. Co.Design has a food microscopy gallery you don’t want to miss. Oh, and those are cake sprinkles.
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Paying VERY Close Attention To What You Eat

Carin Alpert uses a scanning electron microscope to take a very close look at the foods we consume. Turns out that delicious things are rather extraterrestrial and terrifying when viewed on the microscopic scale.

Co.Design has a food microscopy gallery you don’t want to miss.

Oh, and those are cake sprinkles.

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Selected Illustrations from “Micrographia: Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon” by Robert Hooke, ca. 1665. From Nikon’s Small World microscopy competition to infinitely zooming GIFs of diatoms to everything in between, we daily use technology to extend the abilities of the human eye and brain. But our species has only been probing the world beyond sight for a few hundred years, since the days of Hooke himself. The equipment has evolved quite a bit in the past three-and-a-half centuries, from their crudely lensed microscopes into today’s detectors of magnetic molecular resonance that have allowed us to begin to map the human brain. In the preface to Micrographia, Hooke recognized that the human senses, that, despite our incredible intelligence, are imperfect and incapable of discerning much of the world around us. We also remain dependent on a memory equally flawed: The only way which now remains for us to recover some degree of those former perfections, seems to be, by rectifying the operations of the Sense, the Memory, and Reason, since upon the evidence, the strength, the integrity, and the right correspondence of all these, all the light, by which our actions are to be guided is to be renewed, and all our command over things it to be establisht. It is therefore most worthy of our consideration, to recollect their several defects, that so we may the better understand how to supply them, and by what assistances we may inlarge their power, and secure them in performing their particular duties. In observing and illustrating the microscopic world, Hooke acted as a scientific vessel, using his own hands (and those of his assistants) to recreate a universe known only to a handful of people alive in his era. We leave that duty to computers today, and now nearly anyone has access to the world beyond sight. But Hooke must have felt like a messenger from a world beyond, delivering a report on sights that he witnessed for perhaps the first time among humans.  Check out Carl Zimmer’s fine review of the text at Download the Universe. There you’ll find several places to read Hooke’s Micrographia collection online, for free. Unfortunately, none of them will deliver the true beauty of his drawings. Like the cat-sized flea that folds out like a centerfold. On second thought, I’m not sure a cat-sized flea is an image I want to take with me, you know, to sleep. (via freshphotons)
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Selected Illustrations from “Micrographia: Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon” by Robert Hooke, ca. 1665. From Nikon’s Small World microscopy competition to infinitely zooming GIFs of diatoms to everything in between, we daily use technology to extend the abilities of the human eye and brain. But our species has only been probing the world beyond sight for a few hundred years, since the days of Hooke himself. The equipment has evolved quite a bit in the past three-and-a-half centuries, from their crudely lensed microscopes into today’s detectors of magnetic molecular resonance that have allowed us to begin to map the human brain. In the preface to Micrographia, Hooke recognized that the human senses, that, despite our incredible intelligence, are imperfect and incapable of discerning much of the world around us. We also remain dependent on a memory equally flawed: The only way which now remains for us to recover some degree of those former perfections, seems to be, by rectifying the operations of the Sense, the Memory, and Reason, since upon the evidence, the strength, the integrity, and the right correspondence of all these, all the light, by which our actions are to be guided is to be renewed, and all our command over things it to be establisht. It is therefore most worthy of our consideration, to recollect their several defects, that so we may the better understand how to supply them, and by what assistances we may inlarge their power, and secure them in performing their particular duties. In observing and illustrating the microscopic world, Hooke acted as a scientific vessel, using his own hands (and those of his assistants) to recreate a universe known only to a handful of people alive in his era. We leave that duty to computers today, and now nearly anyone has access to the world beyond sight. But Hooke must have felt like a messenger from a world beyond, delivering a report on sights that he witnessed for perhaps the first time among humans.  Check out Carl Zimmer’s fine review of the text at Download the Universe. There you’ll find several places to read Hooke’s Micrographia collection online, for free. Unfortunately, none of them will deliver the true beauty of his drawings. Like the cat-sized flea that folds out like a centerfold. On second thought, I’m not sure a cat-sized flea is an image I want to take with me, you know, to sleep. (via freshphotons)
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Selected Illustrations from “Micrographia: Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon” by Robert Hooke, ca. 1665. From Nikon’s Small World microscopy competition to infinitely zooming GIFs of diatoms to everything in between, we daily use technology to extend the abilities of the human eye and brain. But our species has only been probing the world beyond sight for a few hundred years, since the days of Hooke himself. The equipment has evolved quite a bit in the past three-and-a-half centuries, from their crudely lensed microscopes into today’s detectors of magnetic molecular resonance that have allowed us to begin to map the human brain. In the preface to Micrographia, Hooke recognized that the human senses, that, despite our incredible intelligence, are imperfect and incapable of discerning much of the world around us. We also remain dependent on a memory equally flawed: The only way which now remains for us to recover some degree of those former perfections, seems to be, by rectifying the operations of the Sense, the Memory, and Reason, since upon the evidence, the strength, the integrity, and the right correspondence of all these, all the light, by which our actions are to be guided is to be renewed, and all our command over things it to be establisht. It is therefore most worthy of our consideration, to recollect their several defects, that so we may the better understand how to supply them, and by what assistances we may inlarge their power, and secure them in performing their particular duties. In observing and illustrating the microscopic world, Hooke acted as a scientific vessel, using his own hands (and those of his assistants) to recreate a universe known only to a handful of people alive in his era. We leave that duty to computers today, and now nearly anyone has access to the world beyond sight. But Hooke must have felt like a messenger from a world beyond, delivering a report on sights that he witnessed for perhaps the first time among humans.  Check out Carl Zimmer’s fine review of the text at Download the Universe. There you’ll find several places to read Hooke’s Micrographia collection online, for free. Unfortunately, none of them will deliver the true beauty of his drawings. Like the cat-sized flea that folds out like a centerfold. On second thought, I’m not sure a cat-sized flea is an image I want to take with me, you know, to sleep. (via freshphotons)
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Selected Illustrations from “Micrographia: Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon” by Robert Hooke, ca. 1665. From Nikon’s Small World microscopy competition to infinitely zooming GIFs of diatoms to everything in between, we daily use technology to extend the abilities of the human eye and brain. But our species has only been probing the world beyond sight for a few hundred years, since the days of Hooke himself. The equipment has evolved quite a bit in the past three-and-a-half centuries, from their crudely lensed microscopes into today’s detectors of magnetic molecular resonance that have allowed us to begin to map the human brain. In the preface to Micrographia, Hooke recognized that the human senses, that, despite our incredible intelligence, are imperfect and incapable of discerning much of the world around us. We also remain dependent on a memory equally flawed: The only way which now remains for us to recover some degree of those former perfections, seems to be, by rectifying the operations of the Sense, the Memory, and Reason, since upon the evidence, the strength, the integrity, and the right correspondence of all these, all the light, by which our actions are to be guided is to be renewed, and all our command over things it to be establisht. It is therefore most worthy of our consideration, to recollect their several defects, that so we may the better understand how to supply them, and by what assistances we may inlarge their power, and secure them in performing their particular duties. In observing and illustrating the microscopic world, Hooke acted as a scientific vessel, using his own hands (and those of his assistants) to recreate a universe known only to a handful of people alive in his era. We leave that duty to computers today, and now nearly anyone has access to the world beyond sight. But Hooke must have felt like a messenger from a world beyond, delivering a report on sights that he witnessed for perhaps the first time among humans.  Check out Carl Zimmer’s fine review of the text at Download the Universe. There you’ll find several places to read Hooke’s Micrographia collection online, for free. Unfortunately, none of them will deliver the true beauty of his drawings. Like the cat-sized flea that folds out like a centerfold. On second thought, I’m not sure a cat-sized flea is an image I want to take with me, you know, to sleep. (via freshphotons)
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Selected Illustrations from “Micrographia: Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon” by Robert Hooke, ca. 1665. From Nikon’s Small World microscopy competition to infinitely zooming GIFs of diatoms to everything in between, we daily use technology to extend the abilities of the human eye and brain. But our species has only been probing the world beyond sight for a few hundred years, since the days of Hooke himself. The equipment has evolved quite a bit in the past three-and-a-half centuries, from their crudely lensed microscopes into today’s detectors of magnetic molecular resonance that have allowed us to begin to map the human brain. In the preface to Micrographia, Hooke recognized that the human senses, that, despite our incredible intelligence, are imperfect and incapable of discerning much of the world around us. We also remain dependent on a memory equally flawed: The only way which now remains for us to recover some degree of those former perfections, seems to be, by rectifying the operations of the Sense, the Memory, and Reason, since upon the evidence, the strength, the integrity, and the right correspondence of all these, all the light, by which our actions are to be guided is to be renewed, and all our command over things it to be establisht. It is therefore most worthy of our consideration, to recollect their several defects, that so we may the better understand how to supply them, and by what assistances we may inlarge their power, and secure them in performing their particular duties. In observing and illustrating the microscopic world, Hooke acted as a scientific vessel, using his own hands (and those of his assistants) to recreate a universe known only to a handful of people alive in his era. We leave that duty to computers today, and now nearly anyone has access to the world beyond sight. But Hooke must have felt like a messenger from a world beyond, delivering a report on sights that he witnessed for perhaps the first time among humans.  Check out Carl Zimmer’s fine review of the text at Download the Universe. There you’ll find several places to read Hooke’s Micrographia collection online, for free. Unfortunately, none of them will deliver the true beauty of his drawings. Like the cat-sized flea that folds out like a centerfold. On second thought, I’m not sure a cat-sized flea is an image I want to take with me, you know, to sleep. (via freshphotons)
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Selected Illustrations from “Micrographia: Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon” by Robert Hooke, ca. 1665. From Nikon’s Small World microscopy competition to infinitely zooming GIFs of diatoms to everything in between, we daily use technology to extend the abilities of the human eye and brain. But our species has only been probing the world beyond sight for a few hundred years, since the days of Hooke himself. The equipment has evolved quite a bit in the past three-and-a-half centuries, from their crudely lensed microscopes into today’s detectors of magnetic molecular resonance that have allowed us to begin to map the human brain. In the preface to Micrographia, Hooke recognized that the human senses, that, despite our incredible intelligence, are imperfect and incapable of discerning much of the world around us. We also remain dependent on a memory equally flawed: The only way which now remains for us to recover some degree of those former perfections, seems to be, by rectifying the operations of the Sense, the Memory, and Reason, since upon the evidence, the strength, the integrity, and the right correspondence of all these, all the light, by which our actions are to be guided is to be renewed, and all our command over things it to be establisht. It is therefore most worthy of our consideration, to recollect their several defects, that so we may the better understand how to supply them, and by what assistances we may inlarge their power, and secure them in performing their particular duties. In observing and illustrating the microscopic world, Hooke acted as a scientific vessel, using his own hands (and those of his assistants) to recreate a universe known only to a handful of people alive in his era. We leave that duty to computers today, and now nearly anyone has access to the world beyond sight. But Hooke must have felt like a messenger from a world beyond, delivering a report on sights that he witnessed for perhaps the first time among humans.  Check out Carl Zimmer’s fine review of the text at Download the Universe. There you’ll find several places to read Hooke’s Micrographia collection online, for free. Unfortunately, none of them will deliver the true beauty of his drawings. Like the cat-sized flea that folds out like a centerfold. On second thought, I’m not sure a cat-sized flea is an image I want to take with me, you know, to sleep. (via freshphotons)
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Selected Illustrations from “Micrographia: Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon” by Robert Hooke, ca. 1665. From Nikon’s Small World microscopy competition to infinitely zooming GIFs of diatoms to everything in between, we daily use technology to extend the abilities of the human eye and brain. But our species has only been probing the world beyond sight for a few hundred years, since the days of Hooke himself. The equipment has evolved quite a bit in the past three-and-a-half centuries, from their crudely lensed microscopes into today’s detectors of magnetic molecular resonance that have allowed us to begin to map the human brain. In the preface to Micrographia, Hooke recognized that the human senses, that, despite our incredible intelligence, are imperfect and incapable of discerning much of the world around us. We also remain dependent on a memory equally flawed: The only way which now remains for us to recover some degree of those former perfections, seems to be, by rectifying the operations of the Sense, the Memory, and Reason, since upon the evidence, the strength, the integrity, and the right correspondence of all these, all the light, by which our actions are to be guided is to be renewed, and all our command over things it to be establisht. It is therefore most worthy of our consideration, to recollect their several defects, that so we may the better understand how to supply them, and by what assistances we may inlarge their power, and secure them in performing their particular duties. In observing and illustrating the microscopic world, Hooke acted as a scientific vessel, using his own hands (and those of his assistants) to recreate a universe known only to a handful of people alive in his era. We leave that duty to computers today, and now nearly anyone has access to the world beyond sight. But Hooke must have felt like a messenger from a world beyond, delivering a report on sights that he witnessed for perhaps the first time among humans.  Check out Carl Zimmer’s fine review of the text at Download the Universe. There you’ll find several places to read Hooke’s Micrographia collection online, for free. Unfortunately, none of them will deliver the true beauty of his drawings. Like the cat-sized flea that folds out like a centerfold. On second thought, I’m not sure a cat-sized flea is an image I want to take with me, you know, to sleep. (via freshphotons)
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Selected Illustrations from “Micrographia: Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon” by Robert Hooke, ca. 1665.

From Nikon’s Small World microscopy competition to infinitely zooming GIFs of diatoms to everything in between, we daily use technology to extend the abilities of the human eye and brain. But our species has only been probing the world beyond sight for a few hundred years, since the days of Hooke himself. The equipment has evolved quite a bit in the past three-and-a-half centuries, from their crudely lensed microscopes into today’s detectors of magnetic molecular resonance that have allowed us to begin to map the human brain.

In the preface to Micrographia, Hooke recognized that the human senses, that, despite our incredible intelligence, are imperfect and incapable of discerning much of the world around us. We also remain dependent on a memory equally flawed:

The only way which now remains for us to recover some degree of those former perfections, seems to be, by rectifying the operations of the Sense, the Memory, and Reason, since upon the evidence, the strength, the integrity, and the right correspondence of all these, all the light, by which our actions are to be guided is to be renewed, and all our command over things it to be establisht.

It is therefore most worthy of our consideration, to recollect their several defects, that so we may the better understand how to supply them, and by what assistances we may inlarge their power, and secure them in performing their particular duties.

In observing and illustrating the microscopic world, Hooke acted as a scientific vessel, using his own hands (and those of his assistants) to recreate a universe known only to a handful of people alive in his era. We leave that duty to computers today, and now nearly anyone has access to the world beyond sight. But Hooke must have felt like a messenger from a world beyond, delivering a report on sights that he witnessed for perhaps the first time among humans. 

Check out Carl Zimmer’s fine review of the text at Download the Universe. There you’ll find several places to read Hooke’s Micrographia collection online, for free. Unfortunately, none of them will deliver the true beauty of his drawings. Like the cat-sized flea that folds out like a centerfold.

On second thought, I’m not sure a cat-sized flea is an image I want to take with me, you know, to sleep.

(via freshphotons)

Hello, Little Fishy! Enjoy this virtual microscope, and explore a zebrafish embryo down to the individual cell! All without leaving your computer or spending those pesky hours preparing it in a lab. This species of fish, Danio rerio, is used in labs around the world to study development. Especially eye development, because … well. it has a huge eye. 
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Hello, Little Fishy! Enjoy this virtual microscope, and explore a zebrafish embryo down to the individual cell! All without leaving your computer or spending those pesky hours preparing it in a lab. This species of fish, Danio rerio, is used in labs around the world to study development. Especially eye development, because … well. it has a huge eye. 
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Hello, Little Fishy! Enjoy this virtual microscope, and explore a zebrafish embryo down to the individual cell! All without leaving your computer or spending those pesky hours preparing it in a lab. This species of fish, Danio rerio, is used in labs around the world to study development. Especially eye development, because … well. it has a huge eye. 
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Hello, Little Fishy! Enjoy this virtual microscope, and explore a zebrafish embryo down to the individual cell! All without leaving your computer or spending those pesky hours preparing it in a lab. This species of fish, Danio rerio, is used in labs around the world to study development. Especially eye development, because … well. it has a huge eye. 
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Hello, Little Fishy!

Enjoy this virtual microscope, and explore a zebrafish embryo down to the individual cell! All without leaving your computer or spending those pesky hours preparing it in a lab.

This species of fish, Danio rerio, is used in labs around the world to study development. Especially eye development, because … well. it has a huge eye. 

Under the Microscope - A T-Cell Lays the Smack Down on a Cancer Cell

Cambridge University has a great series going that takes us under the microscope. Here’s an awesome new one that features a cytotoxic T-cell attacking a cancer cell.

This is a process that goes on in your body all the time, with T-cells like this acting as cellular sentries and eliminating diseased and haywire cells from your body (by destroying them, of course). Your body is a battlefield. 

This video is sped up 92 times from the cell’s real speed.

(by CambridgeUniversity)

Source: youtube.com

thequantumdot: Images taken under a microscope of thin films that I’m making in my lab. The one with the big golden line through the middle is what a scratch looks like under 100x magnification. The small golden islands on the other pictures are peel off that occurs when the thin film doesn’t stick very well to the substrate. The 4th picture is small particles of dust and peeloff that make my samples useless! Back to the lab for more! These are thin films of DLC and DLC/BN on silicon and silicon dioxide. We are trying to fabricate a high quality dielectric to be used in a new transistor. FOR SCIENCE! Proof that even failures can look awesome!
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thequantumdot: Images taken under a microscope of thin films that I’m making in my lab. The one with the big golden line through the middle is what a scratch looks like under 100x magnification. The small golden islands on the other pictures are peel off that occurs when the thin film doesn’t stick very well to the substrate. The 4th picture is small particles of dust and peeloff that make my samples useless! Back to the lab for more! These are thin films of DLC and DLC/BN on silicon and silicon dioxide. We are trying to fabricate a high quality dielectric to be used in a new transistor. FOR SCIENCE! Proof that even failures can look awesome!
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thequantumdot: Images taken under a microscope of thin films that I’m making in my lab. The one with the big golden line through the middle is what a scratch looks like under 100x magnification. The small golden islands on the other pictures are peel off that occurs when the thin film doesn’t stick very well to the substrate. The 4th picture is small particles of dust and peeloff that make my samples useless! Back to the lab for more! These are thin films of DLC and DLC/BN on silicon and silicon dioxide. We are trying to fabricate a high quality dielectric to be used in a new transistor. FOR SCIENCE! Proof that even failures can look awesome!
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thequantumdot: Images taken under a microscope of thin films that I’m making in my lab. The one with the big golden line through the middle is what a scratch looks like under 100x magnification. The small golden islands on the other pictures are peel off that occurs when the thin film doesn’t stick very well to the substrate. The 4th picture is small particles of dust and peeloff that make my samples useless! Back to the lab for more! These are thin films of DLC and DLC/BN on silicon and silicon dioxide. We are trying to fabricate a high quality dielectric to be used in a new transistor. FOR SCIENCE! Proof that even failures can look awesome!
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thequantumdot:

Images taken under a microscope of thin films that I’m making in my lab. The one with the big golden line through the middle is what a scratch looks like under 100x magnification. The small golden islands on the other pictures are peel off that occurs when the thin film doesn’t stick very well to the substrate. The 4th picture is small particles of dust and peeloff that make my samples useless! Back to the lab for more!

These are thin films of DLC and DLC/BN on silicon and silicon dioxide. We are trying to fabricate a high quality dielectric to be used in a new transistor. FOR SCIENCE!

Proof that even failures can look awesome!

I would totally make a desktop wallpaper out of this.  laurahollister: A polarized light micrograph of dopamine crystals. Dopamine ias a naturally occurring precursor of norepinephrine that affects various brain processes, many of which control movements, emotional responses and the experiences of pain and pleasure. Dopamine receptors are especially clustered in the midbrain. The drug L-DOPA, used to help sufferers of Parkinson’s disease, is converted in the brain to dopamine.
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I would totally make a desktop wallpaper out of this. 

laurahollister:

A polarized light micrograph of dopamine crystals. Dopamine ias a naturally occurring precursor of norepinephrine that affects various brain processes, many of which control movements, emotional responses and the experiences of pain and pleasure. Dopamine receptors are especially clustered in the midbrain. The drug L-DOPA, used to help sufferers of Parkinson’s disease, is converted in the brain to dopamine.