A new website to share scientific images

As part of our social media class at UC Santa Cruz, a couple of classmates and I came up with the idea to create a site where scientists could easily share striking scientific images. (All of us used to work in lab and take pretty scientific photos that we didn’t know where to share.) The […]

This Is How Your Drinks Look Under the Microscope

This Is How Your Drinks Look Under the Microscope. Apparently the above image is a margarita magnified 1000x. Wonder what it’ll look like after a few margaritas? Click the link above for a gallery of all your favorite alcoholic beverages. [Via Gizmodo]

Eric Heller’s Gallery of Quantum Art

Eric J. Heller Gallery A gallery of images by Harvard physics and chemistry professor Eric J. Heller. According to his website, his digital abstract art is inspired by: “a world we cannot directly see; the quantum realm of electrons, atoms, and molecules. The strange, often chaotic quantum domain yields forms, which I use as a […]

Nick Veasey’s X-ray Photography

While looking around for more interesting images, I came across Nick Veasey’s work. He’s used X-ray photography to reveal the unfamiliar insides of many familiar objects. I thought many of his images were striking, and his gallery of X-ray photos is well worth checking out. Source: Nick Veasey’s website

Photographed: Ratchet-Like Cell Mechanism that Pulls Wounds Shut | Popular Science

Photographed: Ratchet-Like Cell Mechanism that Pulls Wounds Shut | Popular Science. A short piece I did for Popular Science magazine’s Megapixels section, which features a two-page spread photograph. The web version is available at PopSci.com at the link above. They’re usually pretty stunning, and I like this fluorescent image of dorsal closure in a fruit […]