h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Early last year, I went to see the winning pictures in the Wellcome Image Awards. Each entry is a piece of 'scientific art'. They are generally produced using microscopes - some are artificially coloured in order to bring out a particular aspect of the science.

Well, this year's winners have been announced, and they're fascinating as always. The gallery is here: http://www.wellcomeimageawards.org/index.htm#

You'll find a BBC slideshow with running commentary here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12538048

If you want to go and see the images when you're in London, then you'll find them at the Wellcome Collection in Euston Road: http://www.wellcomecollection.org/visit-us.aspx Admission is free. The rest of the museum is well worth a couple of hours of your time, too.

Pretty. Thanks for sharing.

And you beat me to it, Icy!

Must go see...



MMF

Truly amazing. Thanks for letting us in on it.

What a demonstration - if such we needed - that the natural world is beautiful in its symmetry at all levels of resolution.

Thanks for sharing this, Icy. Truly awesome. Best thing a pharmaceutical company sponsored in a long time. I wish I could see the exibit.

Glad you enjoyed it

The gift shop there makes good use of the images, as you might expect. I have a very colourful diatom on a fridge magnet

Heh-heh. A diatom as a fridge magnet. Nerd heaven...

It's this one: http://antenna.sciencemuseum.org.uk/files/2010/07/diatom-wellcome-images-hero.jpg

>>A diatom as a fridge magnet.<<

Is that a home for diets?

MMF

No, it's weight loss through doing this:

And I thought it was a Welsh Midget.

Dai Atom!!



MMF

Sounds like a hair care product for the greying northerly gent.
"dye-at-'om"

or possibly

Elective Euthanasia in Yorkshire.

"die-at'om"

For some odd reason, I forgot to post my annual journal about the Wellcome Image awards last year. The 2012 exhibition is over now, but you can still see the winners online at http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/wellcome-image-awards-2012.aspx

My favourite is the one of caffeine crystals, which look like shredded rhubarb.

I'm keeping an eye out for the 2013 competition - I'll post a journal when I see it.

Thanks for reminding us of this, Icy. I agree with you that those caffeine crystals are really stunning.

I must try to visit the exhibition again this year. I work about 20 minutes walk from it, so there's no excuse. The museum's wonderfully macabre too - full of relics from surgery through the ages, with some that probably belong in a torture chamber.

And it's free.

Well, I'd pass on that one. I get uncomfortable when 'last remains' of humans are displayed. I think that it is disrespectful ----even all of those over thousand year old mummies DO NOT DESERVE to be sideshow exibits. But that is just me.

The museam sounds interesting, dose anyone know what happened to (or how it can be discovered) the fate of the medical museam that was Haslar Royal Navy hospital in Gosport Hampshire.

Not sure, Bob. Didn't researcher Reefgirl work there? Not seen her for a while.

yes thats right but no trace of her for some time I shall check again as it has been some months since I looked.

After a gap of a few years, here are the Wellcome Image winners for 2017:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-39272111

I think there's a bit more art than science in some of these, to be honest, but it's still an amazing set of pictures to make you think.