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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...

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The 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...

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Neuroscience 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....

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Nikon 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...

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Amazing 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...

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Where 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....

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Sailing 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...

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Amazing 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...

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Bee 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...

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The 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...

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Incredible 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...

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Shockfossils: 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...

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Lake 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,...

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Light 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...

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Scientific 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...

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Lenticular 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...

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Flower 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...

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Lives 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...

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The 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...

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Oregon’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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