Thursday, February 23, 2006

Teeny tiny


Some strange place? A computer-generated photo from someone's imagination? No, it is a photo of crystallized vitamin A via microscopy. Check out this one:

Yes, watch out Picasso, you are being rivaled by a picture of phenyl threonine (who isn't?). Go check out tons of groovey works of microscopy here. For a convenient gallery version of this page, go here.

3 comments:

ISLAND MONKEY said...

They are fantastic..

Cootera said...

Day-um... who knew science could be so purty?

adrienne said...

That is soooooooooo cool!!