Thursday, February 28, 2013

Amazing pictures from electron microscope

These photos are taken from Brandon Brill’s book, “Microcosmos,”London England.  Book includes SEM images (Scanning Electron Microscope) of items most of which are too small for the naked eye to see.
A human head louse clinging to a hair
An ant, Formica fusca, holding a microchip
Bacteria on the surface of a human tongue
Cigarette paper
A clutch of unidentified butterfly eggs on a raspberry plant
A daisy bud
Calcium phosphate crystal
Cut hairs and shaving foam between two razor blades
Eyelash hairs growing from the surface of human skin
Fimbriae of a Fallopian tube
Household dust which includes long hairs such as cat fur, twisted synthetic and woolen fibers, serrated insect scales, a pollen grain, plant and insect remains
Human sperm (spermatozoa), the male sex cells
Mushrooms spores
The corroded surface of a rusty metal nail
The eight eyes (two groups of four) on the head of a Mexican red-kneed tarantula
The end of the tongue (proboscis) of a hummingbird hawkmoth
The head of a Romanesco cauliflower
The fungus Aspergillus fumigatus
The head of a mosquito
The nylon hooks and loops of velcro
The shell of a Foraminiferan
The surface of a strawberry
The surface of an Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory silicon microchip
The weave of a nylon stocking

#thankfully shared from: motleynews.net

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