Heiti Paves from Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia captured this 20x thale cress ( Arabidopsis thaliana ) using a confocal microscope. ...[More]
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Heiti Paves from Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia captured this 20x thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) using a confocal microscope. The little flowering plant has a short genome, making it a common subject of genetic study.
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HEITI PAVES
SECOND PLACE:
This image is not an insect's antennae, but rather the flower stem section of a spiny sow thistle ( Sonchus asper ) magnified 150x. The plant, often considered a weed in North America, was imaged on a dark-field microscope by Gerd Guenther of Düsseldorf, Germany....[More]
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This image is not an insect's antennae, but rather the flower stem section of a spiny sow thistle (Sonchus asper) magnified 150x. The plant, often considered a weed in North America, was imaged on a dark-field microscope by Gerd Guenther of Düsseldorf, Germany.
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GERD GUENTHER
THIRD PLACE:
This wrinkled photoresist—a light-sensitive material commonly used in photolithography and other industrial chip-making processes—was blown up to 200 times its size....[More]
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This wrinkled photoresist—a light-sensitive material commonly used in photolithography and other industrial chip-making processes—was blown up to 200 times its size. It was snapped with a bright-field microscope by Pedro Barrios-Perez of the Institute for Microstructural Sciences at the National Research Council Canada in Ottawa.
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PEDRO BARRIOS-PEREZ
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This image of an anglerfish ovary (from the order Lophiiformes) was reeled in by James Hayden at The Wistar Institute, a nonprofit cancer research organization in Philadelphia....[More]
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This image of an anglerfish ovary (from the order Lophiiformes) was reeled in by James Hayden at The Wistar Institute, a nonprofit cancer research organization in Philadelphia. He captured it at 4x magnification on a two-channel autofluorescence scope.
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JAMES HAYDEN
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This young sea star—or starfish, of the class Asteroidea—may have been smiling for the dark-field microscope when this image was taken, but judging from its oral surface, shown here at 40 times life-size, even Bruno Vellutini of the Centro de Biologia Marinha at the University of São Paulo in Brazil, who took the image, may not know....[More]
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This young sea star—or starfish, of the class Asteroidea—may have been smiling for the dark-field microscope when this image was taken, but judging from its oral surface, shown here at 40 times life-size, even Bruno Vellutini of the Centro de Biologia Marinha at the University of São Paulo in Brazil, who took the image, may not know.
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BRUNO VELLUTINI
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Scaled down, these fish scales are seen here at 20x magnification. They were captured on a transmitted-light scope by Havi Sarfaty of the Israel Veterinary Medical Association in Ramat-Gan, who has garnered recognition for other microscopic images in previous years....[More]
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Scaled down, these fish scales are seen here at 20x magnification. They were captured on a transmitted-light scope by Havi Sarfaty of the Israel Veterinary Medical Association in Ramat-Gan, who has garnered recognition for other microscopic images in previous years.
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HAVI SARFATY
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A favorite flower in the southern U.S., the black-eyed Susan vine ( Thunbergia alata ), went under confocal fluorescence and radiation imaging to reveal its hairlike trichomes....[More]
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A favorite flower in the southern U.S., the black-eyed Susan vine (Thunbergia alata), went under confocal fluorescence and radiation imaging to reveal its hairlike trichomes. This image, magnified at 450x, was plucked by Shirley Owens of Michigan State University in East Lansing.
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SHIRLEY OWENS
EIGHTH PLACE:
Getting back to basics, Lloyd Donaldson of Scion Next Generation Biomaterials in Rotorua, New Zealand, snapped this image of simple cotton fibers stained with berberine sulfate, a plant-based extract, and color-depth shaded....[More]
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Getting back to basics, Lloyd Donaldson of Scion Next Generation Biomaterials in Rotorua, New Zealand, snapped this image of simple cotton fibers stained with berberine sulfate, a plant-based extract, and color-depth shaded. The loose strands were taken on a confocal fluorescence scope at 200 times the size of a normal weave.
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LLOYD DONALDSON
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This image of magmatic rock olivine (a mineral which in a pure form is the gem peridot) inclusions, rumbles in at just 5x magnification. Bernardo Cesare of the University of Padova's Geoscience Department in Italy captured them with a polarized transmitted-light microscope....[More]
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This image of magmatic rock olivine (a mineral which in a pure form is the gem peridot) inclusions, rumbles in at just 5x magnification. Bernardo Cesare of the University of Padova's Geoscience Department in Italy captured them with a polarized transmitted-light microscope.
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BERNARDO CESARE
10TH PLACE:
Leave it to the diminutive diatoms to bring out algae's best side. Only 10 times larger than life, this image was captured via dark-field by Arlene Wechezak in Anacortes, Wash....[More]
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Leave it to the diminutive diatoms to bring out algae's best side. Only 10 times larger than life, this image was captured via dark-field by Arlene Wechezak in Anacortes, Wash. Such diatoms have been proposed as a key biofuel source of the future.
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ARLENE WECHEZAK
11TH PLACE:
Studying the brain, Dominik Paquet of the Ludwig Maximilians University's Adolf Butenandt Institute in Munich stained different parts of this Alzheimer's-model zebra fish....[More]
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Studying the brain, Dominik Paquet of the Ludwig Maximilians University's Adolf Butenandt Institute in Munich stained different parts of this Alzheimer's-model zebra fish. Its neurons are green, tau proteins appear red, and the pathological tau, blue. The fish appears here at 10 x magnification under a confocal. The group published a paper on the zebra fish as a model for studying Alzheimer's earlier this year in The Journal of Clinical Investigation.
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DOMINIK PAQUET
12TH PLACE:
The flow pattern of draining soap film—at 10x magnification—was captured here with a simple microscope by Tsutomu Seimiya at Tokyo Metropolitan University....[More]
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The flow pattern of draining soap film—at 10x magnification—was captured here with a simple microscope by Tsutomu Seimiya at Tokyo Metropolitan University. Striking images of soap have garnered previous photo prizes for Seimiya.
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TSUTOMU SEIMIYA
13TH PLACE:
John Hart of Hart3D Films in Boulder, Colo., used a polarized transmitted-light technique cranked up to 33x magnification to capture this recrystallized melted mixture of acetanilide, resorcinol and carbon terabromide....[More]
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John Hart of Hart3D Films in Boulder, Colo., used a polarized transmitted-light technique cranked up to 33x magnification to capture this recrystallized melted mixture of acetanilide, resorcinol and carbon terabromide.
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JOHN HART
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This little lobster appears only 3.2 times larger than life. The lobster-bearing egg was imaged using dark-field by Tora Bardal from the NTNU Center of Fisheries and Aquaculture in Trondheim, Norway....[More]
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This little lobster appears only 3.2 times larger than life. The lobster-bearing egg was imaged using dark-field by Tora Bardal from the NTNU Center of Fisheries and Aquaculture in Trondheim, Norway. Lobster fisheries are just one of the many industries projected to advance northward with climate change.
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TORA BARDAL
15TH PLACE:
Rising up from the dark, an aquatic fly larva ( Atherix ibis ) was captured here at 25 times its true size. Fabrice Parais at DIREN Basse-Normandie, an environmental agency in Henroville-Saint-Clair, France, used a stereomicroscope to generate this image....[More]
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Rising up from the dark, an aquatic fly larva (Atherix ibis) was captured here at 25 times its true size. Fabrice Parais at DIREN Basse-Normandie, an environmental agency in Henroville-Saint-Clair, France, used a stereomicroscope to generate this image.
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FABRICE PARAIS
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It might take millions to make an omelet. These snail eggs were shot at 200x magnification. Massimo Brizzi of Microcosmo Italia in Empoli, Florence, Italy caught these bitty eggs using differential interference contrast microscopy....[More]
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It might take millions to make an omelet. These snail eggs were shot at 200x magnification. Massimo Brizzi of Microcosmo Italia in Empoli, Florence, Italy caught these bitty eggs using differential interference contrast microscopy.
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MASSIMO BRIZZI
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Have the time ? This 2.5x shot of a stopwatch was gathered via confocal imaging with depth coding by Rebekah Helton of University of Delaware's Department of Biological Sciences in Newark....[More]
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Have the time? This 2.5x shot of a stopwatch was gathered via confocal imaging with depth coding by Rebekah Helton of University of Delaware's Department of Biological Sciences in Newark.
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REBEKAH HELTON
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This glowing specimen is actually human skin on fibronectin—which aids in healing and fetal development—with a growth factor. The 90x enlargement—and confocal imaging—was captured by Julia Sero of Children's Hospital Boston at the Harvard Medical School....[More]
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This glowing specimen is actually human skin on fibronectin—which aids in healing and fetal development—with a growth factor. The 90x enlargement—and confocal imaging—was captured by Julia Sero of Children's Hospital Boston at the Harvard Medical School.
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JULIA SERO
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All that glitters may at least be cold. This 40x magnification is of a small snowflake, taken by Yanping Wang at the Beijing Planetarium in China using reflected and transmitted light....[More]
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All that glitters may at least be cold. This 40x magnification is of a small snowflake, taken by Yanping Wang at the Beijing Planetarium in China using reflected and transmitted light. Even though it seems no two are alike, snowflakes are indeed symmetrical.
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YANPING WANG
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Upping the ante on microscopic imaging, this reflected light picture of a rusted old coin is magnified 40x. It was taken by Havi Sarfaty of the Israel Veterinary Medical Association in Ramat-Gan, who also won sixth place....[More]
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Upping the ante on microscopic imaging, this reflected light picture of a rusted old coin is magnified 40x. It was taken by Havi Sarfaty of the Israel Veterinary Medical Association in Ramat-Gan, who also won sixth place.
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HAVI SARFATY
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Slideshows are nice if they don't need to reload the page every picture. Either that or clean up your layout so if I absolutely need to refresh the page, I don't have to scroll down. Time to learn AJAX.
I agree with 1up, but still I appreciate the slideshow. This is what made me bookmark SciAm.com last year. The trippy images take me back to days of 'yore'. (Or at least 'mine.')
Lovely article and wonderful photos. Thanks you SA on-line. Nice work, Ms. Harmon. I will use these in my Biology and Life Science science classrooms knowing that my students will find them as intriguing as I did.
Lovely article and wonderful photos. Thanks you SA on-line. Nice work, Ms. Harmon. I will use these in my Biology and Life Science science classrooms knowing that my students will find them as intriguing as I did.
I also show them to my students to help spark their interest in learning (over memorization) - I also order and use the calendars and posters of these prints available from Nikon.
In addition, SciAm and Mind are two of my most favorite and practically-useful publications. I will stick up for them by saying: The slideshow works perfectly fine on my computer, no technical delays or setbacks. Perhaps you should check out your own equipment before placing the blame on people who are quite obviously more qualified than you on the topic.
I agree with the first comment... The slideshow's waste of bandwidth is unpleasant... unScientific, in that it could be improved with our present knowledge, and unAmerican to not do so.
But it is easy to be a critic, and still the images are fantastic...
in fact, it would doubt that all were as occuring in nature but rather how many dyed like the cotton altho it were sweet off the bare primaries of most.
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Add CommentSlideshows are nice if they don't need to reload the page every picture. Either that or clean up your layout so if I absolutely need to refresh the page, I don't have to scroll down. Time to learn AJAX.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhat amazes me is the incredible variety of microscopic techniques that are available to make these images.
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I agree with 1up, but still I appreciate the slideshow. This is what made me bookmark SciAm.com last year. The trippy images take me back to days of 'yore'. (Or at least 'mine.')
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWow no way dude thats like the coolest thing I ever seen!
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wow slide show is ver nice. Absolutely it s edifice :). I like this magazine...
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisGreat photo - just the right magnification to give an engaging picture of the bizarre-ness of the world around us.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhat a great lobster baby!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisLovely article and wonderful photos. Thanks you SA on-line. Nice work, Ms. Harmon. I will use these in my Biology and Life Science science classrooms knowing that my students will find them as intriguing as I did.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisLovely article and wonderful photos. Thanks you SA on-line. Nice work, Ms. Harmon. I will use these in my Biology and Life Science science classrooms knowing that my students will find them as intriguing as I did.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI also show them to my students to help spark their interest in learning (over memorization) - I also order and use the calendars and posters of these prints available from Nikon.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIn addition, SciAm and Mind are two of my most favorite and practically-useful publications. I will stick up for them by saying: The slideshow works perfectly fine on my computer, no technical delays or setbacks. Perhaps you should check out your own equipment before placing the blame on people who are quite obviously more qualified than you on the topic.
I think you misspelled carbon tetrabromide in the caption.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisLoved the snowflake, looks like a really cool ice cube! All of the pics were awesome!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisLoved the snowflake, looks like a really fancy ice cube. All the pictures were awesome!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAbsolutely stunning I could see myself painting them with such a ray of colors!!
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I agree with the first comment... The slideshow's waste of bandwidth is unpleasant... unScientific, in that it could be improved with our present knowledge, and unAmerican to not do so.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisBut it is easy to be a critic, and still the images are fantastic...
ver satisfying to a color junky,
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisin fact, it would doubt that all were as occuring in nature but rather how many dyed like the cotton altho it were sweet off the bare primaries of most.
I accept the microscope as a gift for geochemical studies in Ukraine ... romabo_@ukr.net
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI accept the microscope as a gift for geochemical studies in Ukraine ... romabo_@ukr.net
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI accept the microscope as a gift for geochemical studies in Ukraine ... romabo_@ukr.net
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI accept the microscope as a gift for geochemical studies in Ukraine ... romabo_@ukr.net
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI accept the microscope as a gift for geochemical investigations in Ukraine...
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