Beauty is in the eye ...of the fruit fly! For 38 years, the Nikon Small World competition has selected prime photographic examples of microscopic form. Winning entries like the fruit fly eye above prove that beauty can b...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/13/Beauty-is-in-the-Eye-of-the-Fruit-Fly/
James Tyrwhitt-Drake runs the mind-blowing blog Infinity Imagined, where you'll find visualizations of things great and small, patterns in nature and math, and the beauty of discovery. Tyrwhitt-Drake created a gif image...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/07/Life-on-Life-on-Life/
For the first time ever, scientists have captured an image of a shadow thrown by a single atom. In this case, the atom is an Ytterbium ion, trapped in a vacuum and cooled down to "only a few ‘millikelvin’." Research...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/08/the-shadow-of-an-atom/
Here's an intriguing idea: a fictional tale crafted around a set of microphotographs. The images of things you wouldn't recognize at that scale became fantastic landscapes for the story! Alan Jaras is the artist who make...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/31/journey-into-the-microworld/
What you are looking at here is a cross-section of a blade of marram grass, which is used to stabilize coastal dunes. Fluorescent dye has been added to highlight the internal structures. Those internal structures loo...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/17/smiling-faces/
This is a really tiny Enterprise. This image won the prize for Best Ion MicroGraph in the 47th International Conference on Electron, Ion and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication Bizarre/Beautiful Micrograph Contest...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/03/17/nano-trek/
