The Lake that Glows Blue in the Dark
In Victoria, Australia, a hauntingly beautiful phenomenon turned the Gippsland Lakes (and midnight swimmers) luminous blue. ‘ It was like we were playing with radioactive paint,’ said photographer...
View ArticleThe Rainbow Clouds of Everest
Absolutely stunning photos captured by astronomer Oleg Bartunov on a recent journey through the Himalyas. His two images show almost the whole spectrum of the rainbow in a natural event rarely recorded...
View ArticleNeuroscience Art: Greg Dunn
Greg Dunn is working on a doctorate in neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, but he uses the materials that he encounters in his work to create some of the world’s most unusual works of art....
View ArticleNikon Small World Photomicrography Competition 2011
1st place: Portrait of a bug – Igor Siwanowicz / Max Planck Inst. of Neurobiology Every year, the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition highlights the beauty and complexity of the world as...
View ArticleAmazing Microscope Shots
A wood or heathland Ant, Formica fusca, holding a microchip The weave of a nylon stocking A clutch of unidentified butterfly eggs on a raspberry plant Pollen (Photo: Dartmouth Electron Microscope...
View ArticleWhere Science Inspires Art and Art Informs Science
Digital images by Harvard physics and chemistry professor Eric J. Heller. His digital abstract art is inspired by a world we cannot directly see; the quantum realm of electrons, atoms, and molecules....
View ArticleSailing in a strawberry milkshake
Lake Retba, which runs through Senegal, West Africa, gets its color from an unusually high salt content—in some up to 40-percent! Microbiologist Michael Danson says that the water gets its...
View ArticleAmazing Aerial Beach Photos
In his ongoing series À la Plage, À la Piscine, Gray Malin shoots amazing aerial beach photos around the world. Shooting from doorless helicopters, this series has been photographed around the world...
View ArticleBee Hotels for Solitary Bees
Solitary bees do not live within a hive with a queen. There are males and females. A fertilized female makes a nest in wood or stone and bored into the wood in order to construct a nursery. Image by...
View ArticleThe Waitomo Glowworm Caves
The breathtaking limestone caves in Waitomo, New Zealand, are home to hundreds of thousands of the beetles – which light up the caverns like bright blue stars. The caves are a perfect breeding ground...
View ArticleIncredible Underwater Ice Bubbles Trapped in Canada Lake
The rare phenomenon occurs each winter in the man-made lake, Abraham Lake, located at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. Bubbles are created as the plants on the lake bed release methane gas, which...
View ArticleShockfossils: Making artwork with a 5 million volt electron accelerator
Physicist and artist Todd Johnson makes shockfossils, lightning-style sculptures, created with a 5 million volt particle accelerator. Here is a video showing the process. Related articles Alexis...
View ArticleLake in Tanzania turns animals into statues
Lake Natron takes its name from natron, a naturally occurring compound made mainly of sodium carbonate, with a bit of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) thrown in. Here, this has come from volcanic ash,...
View ArticleLight pillars over Ontario
Light pillars form when a bright light (from the sun, the moon or man-made light sources) reflects off the surfaces of millions of falling ice crystals associated with thin, high-level clouds. The...
View ArticleScientific Illustrations by Noel Badges Pugh
Noel Badges Pugh creates scientific illustrations as well as artwork with a more psychedelic perspective. Inspired by nature and dreams, all’s created with an utmost appreciation for the details and...
View ArticleLenticular Clouds photography
Photo by Arco Images/Alamy Lenticular clouds are stationary lens-shaped clouds, normally aligned at right-angles to the wind direction. They are fairly common near mountains and are formed by so-called...
View ArticleFlower Nanostructures created in a beaker
These false-color SEM images reveal microscopic flower structures created by manipulating a chemical gradient to control crystalline self-assembly. To create the flower structures, Noorduin and his...
View ArticleLives Within a Drop of Water
A world so small that it fits into a drop of water. Michael Shribak/ Dr. Irina Arkhipova – Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole, Massachusetts – Philodina roseola (bdelloid rotifer), live specimen...
View ArticleThe colorful sea slugs
Image credits: Jim Lynn The sea slug is also commonly referred to as a sea cucumber, mainly because of the of the sea slug’s shape and the fact that it is normally found on coral or rocks usually...
View ArticleOregon’s ‘Lost Lake’ disappearing through lava tubes
Image source Oregon is home to the towering Cascades, a range of mountains and active volcanoes. The Lost Lake likely formed about 3,000 years ago, when lava flowing from a volcanic vent blocked a...
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