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    goldfarb: "Without the vivid colours generated by computer software, these transparent structures are instead defined by their topography, geometry and symmetry... more »
    beercheck: Good lord. It's like Escher on shrooms. They just keep squeezing closer together....and closer.....and closer... more »
    JaviDecimal: I think I see Mainframe floating in the data channels. Or some weird shaped Game cubes. more »
    Tzepish: What they don't tell you is that the "data" in "data channels" is probably porn. more »
    RenRen: Believe me, once you look through a microscope, you'll never see the (known) Universe the same way ever again. more »
  • #nanoart

    There's A Hole In The Microverse!

    This awesome piece of nano-art shows dislocations in an arrangement of nano-crystals, each one 300 times smaller than a human hair. But it looks like the micro-universe is about to break into our own. More »
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    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 »
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    The Terrible Beauty In The Heart Of A Rat

    These luminous shapes are cardiac fibroblasts from a newborn rat, suspended in a collagen-thick film which is stimulating the environment around the cells. This makes them express a protein called DDR2, which scientists believe help cells to sense their surroundings and signal to the cells that they need to remodel themselves in response. The blue part is the cell nucleus, the green part is the cell's cytoskeleton and the red staining is the DDR2 at work. This image is just one of Chris Robinson's last-minute entries in the 21st. NanoArt competition, which have become my favorite entrants. Click through to view the others. More »
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    Biotech Is The New Nanotech

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    A Lab Disaster Makes For Great Nano-Art

    When things go wrong at the nano-scale, it can yield the coolest images. Like this failed oxidation of a piece of silicon, which went south because the artists didn't use enough chromium. Some of the nano-art in the 21st Nano Art Competition looks a tad cheesy and fake, but the best contenders show off something unexpected (and maybe migraine-inducing) that really happened in the lab. Check out more of our favorites after the jump, and vote for your favorite here. More »