Halla

freshphotons:

This art print is inspired by the most powerful sentence of Carl Sagan’s scientific series, Cosmos: “The cosmos is also within us, We’re made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.” -Imaginary Foundation.

(Source: ephemeral-song, via freshphotons)

laughingsquid:

Nikon Small World 2011

(via freshphotons)

nicefigure:

Folding principles of the human genome +citation

(via freshphotons)

(Source: heythereuniverse, via freshphotons)

laughingsquid:

Lives Within a Drop of Water

(via freshphotons)

14-billion-years-later:

Artificial cilia seen here have been produced that can beat in sync. In nature cilia are used to propel organisms or in multicellular animals they can be found beating mucus into the mouth for you to swallow. Disgusting yet cool.

(via freshphotons)

laughingsquid:

Photos of Food Taken With An Electron Microscope

egillhardar:

Untitled

asinglescientist:

For those of you who don’t believe there is beauty in science. This is a dissociated hippocampal neuron with an antibody stain against MAP2, a common cell body and dendritic marker. Billions of these guys make up the human brain through trillions of synaptic connections. Neurons really are beautiful.

Image taken from our own lab.

(via fuckyeahnervoussystem)

jtotheizzoe:

The sparkling enope squid’s bioluminescence.

(via Best cephalopod superpowers)

(via freshphotons)

micro-scopic:

Forebrain, Rat (BC stain)

(via fuckyeahnervoussystem)

fuckyeahnervoussystem:

HYPOXIC-ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY  Bilateral atrophy in the territory of the middle cerebral artery

scipsy:

This image of a peppercorn and a grain of salt taken by David McCarthy is the overall winner (and close-up category winner) in this year’s Visions of Science Photographic Awards. The competition is sponsored by Novartis and The Daily Telegraph. (©David McCarthy) (via Visions of Science)

(via clatko)