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A few of the wonderful textures on the underside of a woodbug.

Image Credit: James Tyrwhitt-Drake, UVic AMF

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The foot of a fruit fly.

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Today I observed an interesting phenomenon with the SEM.  While imaging a radiolarian at 20kv, the sample became completely statically charged.  When I switched back to 1kv it behaved as a spherical mirror to electrons, revealing a distorted reflection of the inside of the electron microscope!

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A new animation of a familiar subject; zooming in on the diatom Thalassiosira Rotula with an electron microscope.

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It's been a long time!  Here's a new animation of the girdle band of the diatom Thalassiosira Rotula.

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The Invisible Universe; Animations of the microscopic world created with a Scanning Electron Microscope.  Credit: James Tyrwhitt-Drake/UVic Advanced Microscopy Facility

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Detail of the external membrane of a peritrich, a type of cilliated protozoan.

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Marine Bacteria

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Diatoms on the surface of an amphipod.

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The stage and sample chamber of a Hitachi S-4800 Scanning Electron Microscope.

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