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 […]
Sci-Fi Vistas Milked From Boring Old Earth
Sci-Fi Vistas Milked From Boring Old Earth Wired has a gallery of strange other-worldly photographs by Allison Davies, taken all over the world. In the one above she’s present in the photo wearing a ‘spacesuit’ she designed herself. The series is appropriately named Outerland, and is available in her book published by Charles Lane Press. […]
The early twentieth century in color
It’s weird, but when I think of any era before the 1950s, I always picture it in black-and-white. I guess it’s just the effect of all the old movies and photos. The technology for color photography was actually around from sometime in the late-1800s, it was just too expensive and the techniques weren’t perfected for […]
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]
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 […]
Gallery: This Years Most Amazing Microscopic Photography | Popular Science
Gallery: This Years Most Amazing Microscopic Photography | Popular Science. A gallery of beautiful pictures from the latest edition of Nikon’s Small World photography competition, which showcases the best photographs taken through microscopes. Amina, another intern, and I created the gallery and did the write-ups, was fun seeing all the images in beautiful high-res…Again, the […]