20 Pictures of Mushrooms That are Scary Cool | UPopin. My mother always told me I was a fun guy, I guess she was right! Okay, that was corny, but I needed an introduction. The 20 pictures of mushrooms that follow are pretty intense. I never knew simple spores could create such beauty in nature. First we present the common name of the species and then the class and species. Enjoy! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Don’t these photos just make you want to head out in the forest and start turning over logs to see what you will find? Update: Many people have been writing in and asking which of these mushrooms are actually edible. Number 18. Source: Distractify. Untangling the web: how spiders use their silk – graphic | Science. Metabolism.jpg (1051×1404) 25 Amazing Electron Microscope Images. All the common objects are kinda boring when you look at them, but the situation changes when an awesome Electron Microscope comes in the scene.
I mean, take a look at the Salt and pepper image. Isn’t it cool? Is like you’re eating massive stones and pieces of wood. Next, check out the 50x zoom of human eyelash hairs image. Oh my god, we have some ugly eyelashes! Anyway, in this article you can see 25 amazing super zoomed images that look from another planet. Computer hard disk read/write head Magnification: x20 at 6x7cm size. Salt and pepper 20.000x zoom-in on a CD The larva of a bluebottle fly Picture: EYE OF SCIENCE / SPL / BARCROFT MEDIA 1000x zoom-in on a vinyl disc The eye of a needle, threaded with red cotton. Magnification: x16 at 35mm size; x32 at 5x7cm size. Mascara brush Magnification: x4 at 5x7cm size. Coloured scanning electron micrograph of a cat flea Refined and raw sugar crystals Magnification x85 at 10cm wide.
Guitar string Common housefly Picture: EYE OF SCIENCE/SPL/BARCROFT MEDIA. Geologic Time: Graphical Representation of Geologic Time. Microscope photography competition. By Eddie Wrenn Published: 11:02 GMT, 26 June 2012 | Updated: 11:17 GMT, 26 June 2012 A unique close-up image of a living human brain has won the Wellcome Prize for microscope photography after it was taken during a surgical procedure to treat a patient with epilepsy. Taken by Robert Ludlow of UCL's Institute of Neurology, the image is a rare shot of a living brain - a view normally only seen by neurosurgeons, showing veins, arteries and grey matter flushed pink with blood. Professor Alice Roberts, who was a member of the judging panel, said: ‘This is a remarkable image of a human brain.
What makes it so different from most images of the surface of the brain is that this organ is living - this is a brain as it is encountered during neurosurgery. The winning picture was taken during an operation on the brain of a living epilepsy patient. Roberts said, '‘Through the skill of the photographer, we have the privilege of seeing something which is normally hidden away inside our skulls.