As I’ve previously noted, I like cool, preferably scientific, images. I really enjoyed taking pretty microscope pictures as a graduate student, and I’ve been enjoying working on the Megapixels section of Popular Science and the Bull’s-Eye section of Science Illustrated, as well as for the various photo galleries I created for PopSci.com or posted about on this website.

(See my previous posts about Megapixels I wrote about the Delhi subway and a cell repair mechanism.)

I enjoyed helping my editors look for images for these sections, and it also made me realize how much time and effort it took to find good images for these sections – those that are both eye-catching enough, available at a high enough resolution, and have some sort of compelling story associated with them.

So I decided to regularly look for appropriate images, and upload them to my Flickr gallery, as well as linking that gallery to my website. So to the top right of the latest blogpost I’m showing the latest images from my gallery under ‘Cool New Pics’, and clicking on ‘view more photos’ leads to the whole gallery (with an option to start a Flickr slideshow). I’ve also tagged all the images as either Nature, Medicine, Culture, or Technology related (those are the different Bull’s-Eye topics), so clicking on any of the tags shows just the relevant images.

Hopefully this proves to be useful for my editors and for anyone else interested in the latest cool science images. One nice site for pretty science images is FoxNews.com’s EyePoppers, which can be accessed from FoxNews.com’s Science & Technology page under ‘Latest Slideshows’. Here’s this week’s best images.

But I’m always on the lookout for any more sources of new images, so any suggestions would always be appreciated.