You might think that a museum adding 2000 new exhibits would need to build a whole new wing. But the latest additions to London’s Grant Museum of Zoology all fit into a space the size of a large wardrobe: they’re vintage glass microscope slides, bearing specimens taken from everything from fleas to whales. More »
In 1665, Samuel Pepys recalls in his diary that he stayed up till 2am one morning, reading a best-selling page-turner which he called “the most ingenious book I read in my life.” It wasn’t a book about history, or a play, or anything from the arts: it was the world’s first popular book about microscopic images. More »
You are not looking at a human brain. Nor for that matter are you looking at the brain of any living creature. In fact, this is a scanning electron microscope image of a tiny little seed of a plant called rumia crithmifolia. More »
Electron microscopes can produce incredibly detailed and even 3D views of sub-cellular structures, but often at the cost of losing the bigger picture. Researchers at Leiden University in the Netherlands, however, have leveraged a technique called virtual nanoscopy that enables researchers to observe the whole of a cell and its intricate details in a single image. With the method, the team stitches together nanometer resolution photographs of what’s gone under the scope to create a map with adjustable zoom a la Google Maps. Their study created a 281-gigapixel image (packed with 16 million pixels per inch) of a 1.5-millimeter-long zebrafish embryo. If you’d like to take a gander at the ultra-high resolution fish or read up on the group’s findings for yourself, check out the source links below.
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This isn’t candy. Nor is it splinters of wood from a multi-colored tree. In fact, it’s a false-colored scanning electron micrograph showing caffeine crystals in close-up detail. No wonder the stuff gets you going first thing in the morning. More »
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