Quadruple fluorescence image of the mouse retina, showing optic nerve axons and glia stained red and green, respectively, actin in endothelial cells of the blood vessel walls stained blue and nucleic acids stained orange. By Thomas Deerinck/ NCMIR/ Cell.
Source: neuroimages
Compared to Jupiter’s moon Europa, our planet is practically a desert, as this NASA image shows. It’s a computer visualization showing Europa and a dried-out Earth, with the volume of all their water represented by blue spheres.
(Details at APOD: 2012 May 24 - All the Water on Europa)
Source: apod.nasa.gov
Oh. My. God!!! This is amazing.This geologic cross section tattoo is one of my favorite pages in Carl Zimmer’s Science Ink.
Source: nevver
Earth as viral particle. The Russian edition of A Planet of Viruses is out.
Science writer Carl Zimmer has been collecting images of science tattoos on his blog since 2007. He’s noticed a few things that set science tattoos apart from normal tattoos.
1. Science tattoos involve a good bit of reflection. “These are not tattoos that scientists wake up in the morning and wonder how they ended up with them,” Zimmer said. “These are things scientists work out very methodically. ‘What would be the very best quantum physics equation to put on my arm?’”
2. Scientists often get their tattoos after completing their Ph.D.s, sometimes paying homage to equations or compounds that dominated their work for years.
3. They often keep them quiet until they get tenure.
Source: newsworks.org
A hornbill from an 1882 monograph. I could look at this Flickr stream of old nature prints all day. (by BioDivLibrary)
Source: Flickr / biodivlibrary
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Tomorrow: Carl Zimmer on anti-viral drugs, fecal transplants and curating scientific tattoos. [Aren’t you glad this is a picture of a scientific tattoo and not you-know-what?]
Source: blogs.discovermagazine.com
20 years of writing in a single sketch. Thanks to Katie PhD for distilling my talk last week at Brown. Details here and here.
(via So you want to be a science writer? Pearls of wisdom from Carl Zimmer | Katie PhD)
Source: katiephd.com
A field of red: 2052 US temperature records broken or tied during March 2012.
(via Record breaking warmth across the United States in March 2012 | Earth | EarthSky)
Source: earthsky.org
A parasite becomes a fish’s tongue. More information at Tongue Parasites to People of Earth: Thank You For Your Overfishing | The Loom | Discover Magazine
Source: blogs.discovermagazine.com
