GENETICIST

Dolphins swimming in bioluminescent plankton 

Butterfly wings photographed with a macro lens by Linden Glenhill

Candy-eating French Bees - Bees in France eating sugar from a nearby M&M factory began producing blue honey

Baby nudibranchs (via)

Baby snail in its egg before hatching

Heart On Your Sleeve by Kevin Van Aelst, 2009, digital C-print

Every autumn millions of monarch butterflies migrate over 2,000 miles from Canada to Mexico in order to escape the freezing winter climate. 

Really puts into perspective how tiny our own galaxy is relative to everything else out there.

When you swallow sea water you might just be swallowing crab larvae, fish eggs, marine worms, cyanobacteria, and more as shown in this photo.

Traubeck cuts thin slices of Maple, Oak, Beech, and Ash trees, then plays them on a modified turntable[x]

Obstructed artery. The stenosed section of artery is represented by the break in the dark red vessel at top center.

Foods imaged with a scanning electron microscope. Guess what foods they are. Click on the photos for the answers. (via)

A monument at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics to all lab rats used for DNA research (via)

Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the nobel prizes of his peers in aqua regia during the German invasion of Denmark in WWII to prevent Nazis from looting the prizes. He placed the liquid solution of gold and aqua regia in plain sight where it was overlooked. After the war had ended, de Hevesy returned to precipitate the gold out of the mixture. He then returned the gold back to the Nobel Foundation where it was then cast back into its original shape. (img)

Genus Mycena

Time lapse of melting ice over 50 minutes. Made by Mysid

Stem cells (via)