From December through February, many people experience an itchy, runny nose, sneezing, nasal blockage, excess tearing and itchy eyes.If you experience the above symptoms every year during these months, the chance is great that you have Mountain Cedar allergy. This conditions are mostly caused by this pollen.

Courtesy of Steve Hield

Taken by DualBeam microscope

Marine organism

Courtesy of Philippe Crassous

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

Amarylis stigma (pink) with pollen grains (yellow) adhering to sticky glands on its surface. Some pollen tubes (olive green) carrying genetic material can be seen on top of the stigma. Imaged in low vacuum without prior dehydration. Dynamic focus and long working distance used for depth of focus.

Courtesy of Paul Gunning

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Iron sulfide formed by corrosion of steel in acid solution saturated with hydrogen sulfide at 1 bar and 24ºC

Courtesy of Maria Jose Cancio

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

Pine pollen

Courtesy of Owen Crankshaw

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

Plumbonacrite is metastable form of basic lead carbonate hardly found in nature, as such this mineral has not been completely studied and its properties are not well known. In our research we are interested in the role it plays on the formation of the perovskite PbTiO3.

Courtesy of Dr. Eric Formo , UGA

Taken by VolumeScope microscope

EDS compositional maps of 300 × 250px collected and quantified in 10 min. Light elements such as Boron, Carbon and Oxygen are mapped in the composite nanostructure. Product: Talos TEM

Taken by Talos microscope

Zinc oxide nano-rods grown using Chemical Bath Deposition method.[Acknowledgement: Prof.M.S.R.Rao and Joy Narayanan, Research scholar ]

Courtesy of Kannan .D

Taken by Quanta 3D microscope

Mouse kidney fractured to show podocytes

Courtesy of Matt Sharp

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

The new Bacterial Nanocables have been found in Aarhus Bay last year, and then published in Nature 218 (2012) 491

Courtesy of Jie Song

Taken by Nova NanoSEM microscope

A Diatome in Izmir Bay

Courtesy of Gokhan ERDOGAN

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

Sulfur-rich crystal formations deposited on the RJ Lee Group Passive Aerosol Sampler. Collected at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Courtesy of Ashley Moore

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

The Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) image is of ‘Nano Swimmers’ that are currently being investigated for potential use as novel drug carriers. These coiled structures are 25 microns in length, 5 microns in diameter and 300 nanometres in thickness. They are composed of a polymer with nickel/titanium coating and were fabricated by the Multi-Scale Robotics Laboratory, ETH Zurich and in collaboration with the NanoMedicine Laboratory, UCL School of Pharmacy. The swimmers were imaged under a FEI Quanta 200F Scanning Electron Microscope; firstly, the sample was given a 5nm gold coating in a Quorum Q150 Sputter coater and imaged at 5KV. In addition a tilt angle of 65 degrees enhanced their full structure, high resolution digital images were captured and imported into photoshop, where they were artistically manipulated and coloured by Ms Annie Cavanagh.

Courtesy of David McCarthy

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

Eutectoid decomposition of austenite to ferrite and cementite (Fe3C)

Courtesy of Gilberto Del Rosario

Taken by Nova NanoSEM microscope

Lilium Pollen on carbon pad

Courtesy of Roetz Hagen

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Polyimide Removal on a Package

Courtesy of FEI

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The 26S proteasome operates at the executive end of the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. Here, we present a cryo-EM single particle structure of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae 26S proteasome at a resolution of 7.4 Å or 6.7 Å (Fourier-Shell Correlation of 0.5 or 0.3, respectively).

Courtesy of Juergen Plitzko

Taken by Krios microscope

self-organized 300nm polystyrene spheres

Courtesy of Tom Yuzvinsky

Taken by Quanta 3D microscope

Bursted indium oxide thin film

Courtesy of Ralf Müller

Taken by Nova NanoSEM microscope

charging around a tungsten wire

Courtesy of Martina Dienstleder

Taken by DualBeam microscope

Cross-transverse view of a cigarette filter, showing cellulose acetate fibers.Research conducted by Laboratório de Tabaco e Derivados (LATAB)/Divisão de Química Analítica(DQAN)/ INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGIA (INT). Smoking is a trap. Quit now!

Courtesy of Francisco Rangel

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

YMnO3 thin film grown by MOCVD on silicon substrate at 800°C. Image taken by Ionela Iliescu and Patrick Chaudouet.

Courtesy of IONELA ILIESCU

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

It's an environmental scanning electron microscope image of the fracture surface of an effervescent tablet of Vitamin C.

Courtesy of Mr. FRANCISCO RANGEL , MCTI/INT

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

High resolution STEM image from a grain boundary in gold at the atomic level, imaged on an FEI Titan STEM 80-300.

Taken by Krios microscope

Nickel nanowires fabricated by electroplating on a alumina template. The length is around 17 microns, the diameter is around 280 nanometers.

Courtesy of Pengfei Li

Taken by Quanta 3D microscope