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#Issue00 is wrapped up and all ready for tomorrow's launch! Can't wait to share 8 months of hard work with you all! #particlemag #scienceillustrated #beautiful #science #magazine #independentpublishing #independentmagazine #risograph @dizzy.ink @jessrosepictures

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There’s a hexagonal cloud at Saturn’s north pole

It’s a six-sided jet stream (dubbed as the “Hexagon”) that spans 30,000 kilometers (20,000 miles) across. The hexagon is a wavy jet stream of 200-mile-per-hour winds (about 322 kilometers per hour) with a massive, rotating storm at the center. There is no weather feature exactly, consistently like this anywhere else in the solar system. (Source)

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Beautiful Quasar. #GIF

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The many faces of histology… by i-heart-histo

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The images above were taken with the Cytell, a machine developed at GE Healthcare Life Sciences that combines the microscope with the cell analyzer. Click through the photos to learn more about what you’re seeing, and view more images at GE Reports. 

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rat brain: a mosaic of glia and neurons

fluorescence, 600x

credit: Thomas Deerinck

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Images from the book Science Is Beautiful by Colin Salter. Click on images for descriptions.

About the book:

Take a fantastic journey through the human body, thanks to the magic of technology and the most spectacular microscopic images ever created. These pictures, as beautiful as any art, provide a window into the wonder of our brains, the work of a white blood cell, the power of hormones, the tiny hairs on our arms, the movement of human cancer cells, the jagged edges of caffeine crystals, and more. Enjoy the collection purely as a visual voyage or as a means of understanding the science behind the images—which all include the scale of the photography as well as the scientific details in layman’s terms.

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A Histology Slideshow by i♡histo

Heart valve

Lip

Umbilical cord

Nerve

Endometrium

Developing teeth

Mesentery

Tongue

Eyelid

Placenta

Finger

Hard palate

Lymph node

Mammary gland

Prostate

(repeat)

i♡histo

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Ovary of a parsley plant

Plant fertilization takes place when pollen from the male part of a plant lands on the female-receiving part called the stigma. Within minutes after making contact, the pollen will germinate and grow a long tube down into the plant before reaching the ovary. Once at the ovary, the pollen will discharge its sperm into the embryo sac, fertilizing an egg that will develop into seed-containing fruit. Plants have evolved many mechanisms to prevent self-pollination, which hinders adaptation to changing environments and spreads genetic mutations to new plant progeny. Earlier this year, researchers uncovered a 100-million-year old amber fossil that perfectly preserved plant fertilization in action, suggesting this ancient process led to the huge diversity of plants we see today.

Image by Meritxell Vendrell, Universitat Autònoma, Spain.

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Growing Crystals: Under Cross-Polarised Light.

Polarized light microscopy is an optical microscopy technique involving the use of light polarization. Simple techniques include illumination of the sample with polarized light. More complex microscopy techniques include differential interference contrast microscopy and interference reflection microscopy.

These illumination techniques are most commonly used on birefringent samples where the polarized light interacts strongly with the sample and so generating contrast with the background. Polarized light microscopy is used extensively in optical mineralogy.

This optical microscopy technique is capable of providing information on absorption color and optical path boundaries between minerals of differing refractive indices, in a manner similar to brightfield illumination, but the technique can also distinguish between isotropic and anisotropic substances.

Furthermore, the contrast-enhancing technique exploits the optical properties specific to anisotropy and reveals detailed information concerning the structure and composition of materials that are invaluable for identification and diagnostic purposes.

~Giffed by: rudescience  From: This video

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The scientific definition of ice is that it has a regular crystalline structure based on the molecule geometry of water, which consists of a single oxygen atom covalently bonded to two hydrogen atoms, or H-O-H. Normal ice has a hexagonal symmetry. However, it shows under polarized light a large variety of forms and colors. Even in samples of ‘normal’ crystalline ice it has diverse manifestations. Normal means ice is crystallized under atmospheric pressure and by temperatures below 0°C. 

Some samples are shown here. The photography’s are made of ice that was crystalized on microscope slides and placed in polarized light.

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Zebrafish embryo

Just 22 hours after fertilization, this zebrafish embryo is already taking shape. By 36 hours, all of the major organs will have started to form. The zebrafish’s rapid growth and see-through embryo make it ideal for scientists studying how organs develop.

Image courtesy of Philipp Keller, Bill Lemon, Yinan Wan and Kristin Branson, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Va. Part of the exhibit Life:Magnified by ASCB and NIGMS.

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Leucophosphite

Locality:

Tip Top Mine (Tip Top pegmatite), Fourmile, Custer District, Custer Co., South Dakota, USA

Gianfranco Ciccolini’s Photo

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Beautiful Quasar. #GIF

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Have you ever noticed something swimming in your field of vision? It may look like a tiny worm or a transparent blob, and whenever you try to get a closer look, it disappears, only to reappear as soon as you shift your glance. But don’t go rinsing out your eyes!

What you are seeing is a common phenomenon known as a floater. Floaters are tiny objects that cast shadows on the retina, the light-sensitive tissue at the back of your eye. They might be bits of tissue, red blood cells, or clumps of protein that are suspended within the vitreous humor, the gel-like liquid that fills the inside of your eye. As a result, floaters drift along with your eye movements,and seem to bounce a little when your eye stops.

To learn more about floaters, watch the TED-Ed Lesson What are those floaty things in your eye? - Michael Mauser

Animation by Reflective Films

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We're a sucker for a good nebula pic. This one's called the Tarantula as seen in infrared light. Photo by @nasa #alwaysaclassic #nevergoesoutofstyle #beautiful #science #space #nebula #particlemag 🚀🌌🌠💫

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An image of the Home Plate area on Mars taken by the one of the rovers called Spirit! The colours show the differences in rock weathering. Mars looks kinda fun to live in so in #Issue00 out tomorrow we created a guide on how it might compare to life on earth! Have a read and make an informed decision yourself 👽🚀 #PARTICLEMAG #scienceillustrated #beautiful #science #mars #marsrover