Since 1983, Isabel Bannerman and her husband, Julian, have been designing gardens; her most famous being The Stumpery at Prince Charles’ Highgrove, the private royal garden of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall. In addition to Bannerman’s incredible garden designs, the artist also creates illuminating, large-scale photographs of plants that explore the…
© Burrows/Sutton The biological form of a mechanical gear was observed in nature for the first time in juvenile planthoppers (Genus: Issus), a common insect that can be found in gardens across Europe. The insect has hind-leg joints with curved cog-like strips of opposing ‘teeth’ that intermesh, rotating like mechanical gears to synchronise the animal’s…
Caterpillar 30x Magnification (5mm width) | Photograph by OLIVER MECKES Electron microscopes help bring nanoscience to life, providing a level of detail to scientists that was simply not available mere decades ago. The FEI Company is a worldwide leader in electron microscope technology. Below you will find a small collection of images from scientists around…