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.
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)
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.
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A hornbill from an 1882 monograph. I could look at this Flickr stream of old nature prints all day. (by 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?]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m017uny9k61qhmbgeo1_500.jpg)
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?]
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)
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)
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