Nabokov's Notebook

Winners of the first annual Bio-Art competition held by the Federation of American Societies for American Biology (FASEB). The Scientist featured a slideshow of the winning entries:

Top: ”This micrograph shows cells called myoblasts attached to spherical microcarriers, which allow the growth of adult stem cells (green) that have been isolated from skeletal muscle.”

Douglas B. Cowan, Harvard Medical School

Bottom: ”A three-dimensionally woven biomaterial scaffold consisting of multiple layers of resorbable fiber bundles woven into a porous structure. The scaffold is seeded with cells in order to accelerate natural cartilage repair and growth.”

Frank Moutos and Farshid Guilak, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC

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photojojo:

Lovely and a little melancholy, Ori Gersht’s exploding flowers will make you stare.

High Speed Photos of Exploding Flowers

via Booooom

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staceythinx:

The Fibonacci Sequence As Seen in Flowers gallery by Environmental Graffiti is a math and history lesson wrapped in a pretty package of flowers.

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Igor Morski

Boston Big Picture:

“A rare annular eclipse - a ring of sunlight as the new moon, passing between Earth and sun, blocks most, but not all, of the sun’s disc. It is striking to see. Differing from a total solar eclipse, the moon in an annular eclipse appears too small to cover the sun completely, leaving a ring of fire effect around the moon. The eclipse cast its shallow path crossing the West from west Texas to Oregon then arcing across the northern Pacific Ocean to Tokyo, Japan.”

Photographers listed in captions. 

Juan Gatti is known as a commercial photographer and graphic designer, but he also created 25 collages that mix human anatomy with exotic flora and fauna. The pieces shown above are from his ‘de ciencias naturales’ collection, which was displayed last year in a Madrid gallery. 

(All images by Juan Gatti)

From NASA:

“This still SDO image was created by applying additional processing to enhance the structures visible. While there is no scientific value to this processing, it does result in a beautiful, new way of looking at the sun. The original frames are in the 171 Angstrom wavelength of extreme ultraviolet. This wavelength shows plasma in the solar atmosphere, called the corona, that is around 600,000 Kelvin. The loops represent plasma held in place by magnetic fields. They are concentrated in “active regions” where the magnetic fields are the strongest. These active regions usually appear in visible light as sunspots. The events in this video represent 24 hours of activity on September 25, 2011.”

(Source: Flickr / gsfc)

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Origami Hermit Crabs.

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Ceramic art by Jenni Ward

“My work focuses on how organic forms interact and engage with the space they encompass. I create abstract arrangements reflecting the biological world of seeds, pollens, bones, shells and entomology. My pieces explore the tensions of opposing forces with results that evoke contrary feelings of unshackled captivity, organized randomness and the density of negative space.”

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Colin Johnson.

http://www.colinjohnsonillustration.com/