Almost as soon as plants colonised the land surface they began to compete for light, struggling to grow out of each other’s mutual shade. T...

Microscopy prints would make a great, colorful, abstract series for a wall somewhere. Tree of heaven section. Microscopy. Cells. Red.

Scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of cancellous (spongy) bone of the human shin. Bone tissue is either compact or cancellous.

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You can crudely divide orchids into two groups: ground orchids, rooted in the soil - like Pleione species, for example - and epiphytic orchids like the one below, that often grow on the branches of trees in tropical forests. The dangling roots of the epiphytic types have a dual role, sometimes anchoring the plant and always acting as storage vessels for water that they absorb from mist and sudden tropical downpours. If you cut a section through one of these roots (above) you can see their…

scipsy: “ Cross-section of a 3-yr old woody stem of basswood (Tilia) (via cortland.edu) ”

Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.

I think these amazingly close up images of tree cells and cross sections of tree roots are stunning! I’ll be using them as inspiration for some new designs… I love the different sized circular shapes bundled together in little patterns.

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Professor Doug Turnbull is Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Mitochondrial Research. In this, his first post for ThInk, he introduces the Wellcome Trust Centre and gives a crash course in t…

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1894 Chromolithograph Print shows GRANITE IN POLARIZED LIGHT,QUARTZ, OBSIDIAN, PROPYLIT,BASALT Meyers Konversations-Lexikon was a major German encyclopedia

Cell cross-section under a microscope

I found this little insect, which is less than two millimetres long, in a bag of walnuts imported from France. It's a psocid, commonly known as a booklouse, on account of the fact that these often turn up in the bindings of old books that have been stored in a damp place. They also like wallpaper and we used to find them behind peeling damp wallpaper in our house, before we stripped it all off and redecorated, thereby making scores of booklice homeless; I suspect they feed on wallpaper…

It may take an unusual muse to be deeply inspired by the body's insides. Artist Sara Nilsson possesses just such a muse–as well as the skill to create breathtakingly beautiful, anatomically accurate cross-sections of the human body with quilled paper.