Science Source December 28, 2009 DVD

Bone scan shows cancer has spread from the lungs to a rib and vertebra.

Bone scan shows osteomyelitis of the ankle.

Fireball resulting from the test detonation of a hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll on May 21, 1956. The explosion was photographed from an aircraft flying...

Allergy testing.

Wound care: taking a sample swab.

Hand holding a digital thermometer.

Replica of Rhamphorhynchus, a pterosaur from Jurassic Period, catching a fish in Ogden, Utah.

Hearing aid.

Hearing aids.

Tissue sample swabs.

A laboratory technician swabs a culture plate.

Sensitivity test in a culture of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterium that causes a variety of infections in humans.

A laboratory technician swabs a culture plate.

An infant undergoes the Bayley Scales of Infant Development test.

An infant undergoes the Bayley Scales of Infant Development test.

Ultrasound of a twin fetuses at 16 weeks.

Ultrasound of a female fetus at 13 weeks.

Ultrasound of a twin fetuses at 8 weeks.

Head and brain of an adult male viewed as an MRI scan from directly above the head. The midbrain is the structure at the center of the image, with cer...

Head and brain of an adult human male viewed as an MRI scan taken from directly above the head. The midbrain is the structure at the center of the ima...

Adult human brain with invasive malignant tumor (glioblastoma multiforme) in left frontal lobe, colored red. MRI (magnetic resonance imagine) scan tak...

Head and brain of an an adult, seen from the side. This is an MRI scan with 22 lines drawn to represent "slices" taken with other MRI scans.

Large bruise on hip caused by fall.

Conceptual image depicting tachycardia.

Atacama desert, Chile: a mummified Inca woman, well preserved by the dry climate.

Wound care: assessing wound treatment.

Prepared culture sensitivity plate.

Laboratory technician preparing wet smear from sensitivity plate.

Projectile points, from approximately 1750 BC-1350 BC, Poverty Point Archaeological Site, Plummets. Poverty Point culture corresponds to an ancient gr...

Arteriogram showing atheroma in aorta and iliac arteries.

Rheumatoid arthritis of the metacarpophalangeal joints, with an endarteritis-associated ulcer on dorsum.

Normal femoral arteriogram.

Early Scales, probably eighteenth century. Farmers Museum Pharmacy.

A doctor measures a patient's range of motion of a patient's cervical vertebrae with a goniometer.

Marie Curie (1867 - 1934), Polish-French chemist known for describing the rays given off by uranium as radioactivity. Her research on the subject won...

Marie Curie (1867 - 1934), Polish-French chemist known for describing the rays given off by uranium as radioactivity. Her research on the subject won...

Atacama desert, Chile: Chinchorro mummy covered in mud, dating from circa 2500 BC.

Dr. Robert Ballard next to a submersible at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts. Ballard is famous for the discoveries of the wrecks o...

Readout on an electroencephalogram (EEG) machine. Electroencephalography measures electrical activity created by the firing of neurons in the brain.

Readout on an electroencephalogram (EEG) machine. Electroencephalography measures electrical activity created by the firing of neurons in the brain.

Medical lab tech using a blood analyzer machine.

Medical lab tech using a blood analyzer machine.

Aerial photo of the Carajas Iron Mine in the Amazon rainforest, Para, Brazil.

Common skin microflora taken from a 25-cent coin.

Common skin microflora taken from a 20 dollar bill.

Talc, sometimes called soapstone, is the softest mineral on the Mohs hardness scale.

Quartz.

A nurse supervises a patient during a lung function test. The patient is breathing into a peak flow meter, an apparatus that monitors lung function by...

A nurse supervises a patient during a lung function test. The patient is breathing into a peak flow meter, an apparatus that monitors lung function by...

Doctor checking the blood pressure of a senior citizen patient.