{"id":2597,"date":"2025-10-27T12:14:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T12:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/?p=2597"},"modified":"2026-09-30T15:44:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:44:48","slug":"science-is-beautiful-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/2025\/10\/27\/science-is-beautiful-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Science is beautiful :)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have been playing with polarising microscopes again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are three images by Roufaida, showing collagen fibers (thin in green, thick in red) in mouse articular cartilage (top image), in the growth plate (middle image), and in the The annulus fibrosus, the tough, outer ring of fibrocartilage that surrounds each intervertebral disc in the spine. Aren&#8217;t they amazing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-10-24-at-17.23.41_04907083.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"714\" height=\"895\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-10-24-at-17.23.41_04907083.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-10-24-at-17.23.41_04907083.jpg 714w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-10-24-at-17.23.41_04907083-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/10\/Photo-competition_-Roufaida-Bouchenafa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"925\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/10\/Photo-competition_-Roufaida-Bouchenafa-925x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/10\/Photo-competition_-Roufaida-Bouchenafa-925x1024.jpg 925w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/10\/Photo-competition_-Roufaida-Bouchenafa-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/10\/Photo-competition_-Roufaida-Bouchenafa-768x850.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/10\/Photo-competition_-Roufaida-Bouchenafa.jpg 1016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 925px) 100vw, 925px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-09-30-at-13.44.25.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-09-30-at-13.44.25-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-09-30-at-13.44.25-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-09-30-at-13.44.25-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-09-30-at-13.44.25-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-09-30-at-13.44.25.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been playing with polarising microscopes again! Here are three images by Roufaida, showing collagen fibers (thin in green, thick in red) in mouse articular cartilage (top image), in the growth plate (middle image), and in the The annulus fibrosus, the tough, outer ring of fibrocartilage that surrounds each intervertebral disc in the spine. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/2025\/10\/27\/science-is-beautiful-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Science is beautiful \ud83d\ude42<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4483,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musculoskeletal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4483"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2953,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions\/2953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}