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Japanese artist and lifetime fisherman, Iori Tomita’s stained and preserved specimen from his series, shinsekai [toumei hyouhon] (new world transparent specimens).
Photos and info about each specimen are available as an iPhone/iPad app.
Scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography are going through the school’s library of fish, studying and photographing the collection that began in 1875. Above is a mirrorwing flyingfish.
Nudibranchs are colourful sea slugs, and are found all over the world. They are most prolific in warm, shallow sea water.
(via surviving-science)
Scientists are awesome! by David Maclennan
Maclennan on his project:
I have to admit I didn’t really choose according to who has made the greatest contribution to science, I just went for three scientists who were fun to draw. They are as follows: Anna Fisher: astronaut and chemist, and the first mother in space. Nikola Tesla: genius, inventor, electric wizard and owner of a very fine mustache. Max Planck: father of quantum theory.
(via freshphotons)
“Out of this world, quite literally: The beautiful and mysterious Fukang meteorite” - “Within the rock, translucent golden crystals of a mineral called olivine gleamed among a silvery honeycomb of nickel-iron.”