photography

Selected Images of the Day from www.the-scientist.com

Princeton scientists and engineers create a stunning collection of scientific images better suited for a gallery than a lab meeting.

The eye of the common blue damselfly (Enallagma cyathigerum) has a uniform, crystal-like structure, imaged here using two overlapping confocal image stacks.

A scientist-turned-artist cultures bacteria into art.

Check out image finalists and winners, as well as other memorable submissions to this year’s Labby Multimedia Awards.

Presenting the best life science images and videos of 2012

Imagine a panoramic photograph with such high resolution that you could zoom in on a postage stamp more than half a mile away, or read signs that are blocks away from your vantage point. That is just what researchers at Duke University have created.

A single camera unit can capture a moment in time at a mind-boggling resolution.

The BeetleCam is back! And this time, it’s lion proof. 

An armored, remote controlled contraption fitted with a camera snaps dangerously close pictures of lions in Masai Mara.

In 1842, Anna Atkins, a 43-year-old amateur botanist from Kent, England, began experimenting with a brand-new photographic process called cyanotype or blue-print. 

Anna Atkins, pioneering female photographer, revolutionized scientific illustration using a newly invented photographic technique.

Vote for the best micrograph image in Nikon’s 2011 Small World Competition.