
OK, America. We’re calling a timeout.
We may only have just under one more month to go until possibly the most embarrassing presidential election in U.S. history comes to an end and we can all go about the business of lamenting what awaits over the next four years. That’s going to feel like a longer wait than it is. With that in mind, let’s all take a moment to appreciate just how intricate and beautiful the littlest things around us can be.
Every one of these images was captured by placing a trace of an everyday object beneath some of the highest-powered microscopes in the world. A soap bubble. Coffee grounds. A human HeLa cell dividing itself. The eye of a jumping spider and fin of a zebrafish. Looking inside a single particle reveals an entire universe that might as well be as “alive” with energy and uniquely complex structures as gigantic cobbled-together seas of various organic matter like us.
See? Doesn’t that soothing little moment just make you feel a little bit lighter, a little bit more at peace? Now, if you’ll excuse us, we’re going to spray down the Statue of Liberty with viscous purple slime and play it some Jackie Wilson just in case that didn’t settle everyone down.
Source – IFLScience
Caudal gill of a dragonfly larva
Microcrystal test for oxycodone
Butterfly scales
Casuarina seed
Butterfly proboscis
Beta-alanine and taurine crystals
Black Elder Tree Flower Stamen
Brain matter of a transgenic mouse in 3D
Barley stem cross section
Ant leg
Ant pupae
Algae
Ammonite shell
Air bubbles formed from melted ascorbic acid crystals
Air bubbles in evaporating tequila
Algae cells
A daisy’s central disc pattern of tiny unopened flowers
A Frontonia cell showing ingested food, cilia, mouth, and trichocysts
3D picture of moving vesicles
Zooplankton carefully arranged by hand in Victorian style
Young flower buds of Arabidopsis, a flowering plant
Zebrafish fin
Wildflower stamens
Wildflower stamens
Viperfish
Wasp eyes
Water mite
Tintinnid ciliate of a marine plankton from the Indian Ocean
Trumpet animalcule an endosymbionts
The prolegs of a hairy caterpillar gripping a small branch
Tiger beetle and a scale of the forester moth
Tail of a small shrimp
Testis of a fruit fly
Spore capsule of a moss
Surface of embryonic mouse kidney
Seeds of an Indian Paintbrush wildflower
Slime mold
Section of stem of a plant specimen
Section of the cerebellum in a brain
Scales of a butterfly wing
Section of a begonia flower
Scales of a butterfly wing underside
Robber fly
Rubber coated with a thin glass
Polished slab of Teepee Canyon agate
Red speckled jewel beetle
Oreina cacaliae
Poison fangs of a centipede
Mouse retina, laid flat
Mouse retinal ganglion cells
Mullein flower
Mosquito larva
Mouse hand showing veins
Midge flies

Leaves of a liverwort plant
Leg of a water boatman
Jellyfish
Jurinea mollis seed
Leaves of a lesser club moss
Human HeLa cell undergoing cell division
Inside of a humped bladderwort, a freshwater carnivorous plant
Human brain cells differentiated from embryonic stem cells
Hippocampal brain slice
Hippocampal neurons
Head of an orange ladybird
Head of a skinbow zebrafish larvae
Green bottle fly

Glycerin-based soapy solution
Goatsbeard flower seeds