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more about #microscopy Klebert L. Hall: So, only NSFW at a botany lab, or is this too suggestive for the modern office? -Kle. more » burlybax: Isnt this the second time Annalee has brought us graphic plant sex? What goes on your mind woman? more » Jesse Astle: I find this offensive! more » Roklimber: Hey, if these flowers turn into someone like the blonde in this Outer Limits episode (Flower Child), then I'm all for plant sex. :) more » Dr Emilio Lizardo: I'll be in my greenhouse.... more » Brian Fowler: Did anyone else read The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett? "You mean all this time I've been walking in the woods and the trees have been going at i... more » Ruthless, If you let me: I'm kinda disappointed there is no Fleshbot tag indicating a cross-post. It would be pretty amazing to see it pop up over there. more » Im_your_Huckleberry: So, is #5 a C or D cup size. I'm a little rusty on my plant bust sizing. Also, is it wrong to daydream about deflowering them? /could'nt...resist...b... more » Pessimippöpötåmus: Isabella Rossellini needs to reenact these ur... natural processes. more » enderwiggin13: Further proof that rule 34 is real? Also, I'm not sure how your naughty bits work, but I didn't find any of these to be oddly recognizable. =P more » BangarangRufio867: Eat your heart out, Georgia O'Keeffe! Also, there needs to a be "NSFW" disclosure on this. I mean, come on! Get it...come on? Cause it's about sex. more » cferri: "Indian mallow - this pollen shape is designed to stick to bird wings." Designed!? What are you...Kirk Cameron?! more » GreyHammer: where is the NSFW tag?! christ my boss is half bumble bee. time to clear my history more » RandomFrequentFlierDent-Hogswatch!: So pretty. I couldn't find it anywhere in the article - does anyone know how these were taken? I'm guessing with SEM. more » closeencounter: Awww, I was hoping these were videos, so I could rewind and fast-forward, back and forth and back and fo.......uh-oh, I'll be in my bunk.............. more » Roklimber: Plant porn, yay ! :) more » Dr Emilio Lizardo: Algae sex takes 2 hours? I think I'm jealous. more » modernHeretic: Algae money shots... that's hot. more » Jeriba: These are awesome. If I ruled the world, Best Microscopy Video would be a category at the Oscars. more » jesse.darland001: #15 just looks so daggone HAPPY sitting there, as it eats that piece of food like a cute little baby Sarlacc. more » -
#reproduction
Graphic Plant Sex, In Microscopic Detail
This geranium is having sex right now, before your very eyes. Those little grains of pollen clinging to the flower's stigma are competing to plunge their genetic material deep into this flower and reproduce. More » -
#scienceart
Algae Sex and Amoeba Smackdown - Best Microscopy Videos of the Year
Ever wonder what it looks like when algae have sex? Now you'll find out in this winning video from the Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Contest. More winning entries in our gallery, which includes an amoeba vs. yeast cell smackdown. More » -
#madscience
Use Your Cell Phone To Diagnose Blood Diseases
The medical tricorder is now closer than ever to reality. A group of Berkeley engineers have invented a mobile phone microscope that can photograph microbes in your blood, and analyze them for disease. More » -
#madphysics
Most Awesome Chemistry Machine at the Photon Factory
This crazy machine is a new kind of microscope that can identify a chemical based on just a few atoms. Awesomely, it sucks up intense X-ray beams from a synchrotron to do it. More » -
#scienceart
The Haunting Beauty At The Heart Of A Cell's Wounded Monolayer
Here's a microscopy image of a fibroblast, stained with a few different antibodies. The green is microtubuli, the red is cell-contacts and the blue is DNA. It's just one of Jan Schmoranzer's amazing nano-art images. More » -
#scienceart
The Awesome Beauty Of Insect Brains And Single Cells
This glowing green monstrosity isn't a radioactive Doctor Who monster, it's a common fruitfly, part of Duke University's awesome microscopy gallery. (The right image shows a larval brain, the left shows dorsal closure.) Gallery below. -
#retroscienceporn
Eighteenth Century Microscope Monsters
Europeans learned about the wonders of the microscopic world from drawings like this one, created by amateur microscope enthusiast Martin Frobenius Ledermüller in the 1760s. He put bugs, plants, and crystals under the microscope and produced fascinating, highly-symmetrical renderings of what he saw. We've got some etchings much weirder and more alien than this fly below. More » -
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#scienceporn
A Foam Peanut, Sliced Thinly and Magnified
Every science fiction lover starts out by taking the world around them apart: unscrewing the cover from the cable box, putting shit in the microwave to watch it explode, asking their teachers and parents WHY the dog can't talk, or WHY we have to work for money instead of donuts. That's why this image delights me. Aaron Messing took a foam peanut, sliced it thinly, and put it under the microscope. The result? Beautiful deconstructed foam. [Aaron Messing Microscopy Gallery] -
#scienceporn
Tentacled Fungus Attacks The Microverse
This creepy monster skull is actually a snapdragon seed pod, magnified by an electron microscope. Just as you'd always suspected, the microscopic world turns out to contain nothing but slimy textures and sinister craggy shapes, judging from Karin Jones' haunting microscopy photos. More »
