Great Pics

In 1915, a thirty-six year old Albert Einstein had just finished completing the two-page masterpiece that would revolutionize modern physics and catapult the struggling physicist into international fame and glory – the theory of general relativity. Before it was published though, Einstein paused for a moment and wrote a most heartfelt and considerate letter to [...]

Art and science go hand in hand at the Stanford Center for Cognitive and Neurobiological Imaging. The pieces (clay sculptures, etchings and acrylics) were done by Laura Jacobson, and are inspired by human MRIs. Inspiring herself from a brain scan conducted for a study, Laura made a series of weird, wonderful works – giving a [...]

A new visualization technique developed by researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute used a thin sheet of laser light that beams, stepwise, into different planes of a specimen to create intricate and detailed snapshots of cells. In these pictures featured above and below you can see how zebrafish and fruit fly embryos were imaged using this novel [...]

If you’re a regular follower of NASA’s updates, you may have caught glimpses of some of the X-ray photos they report showing the surface of the sun. In these photos, dark specks of various sizes can be seen, which are actually what astronomers refer to as coronal holes. They may extend from the Sun’s equator to [...]

APODs are always awesome, but sometimes… they’re just mind blowing! Such is the case with this picture, which you can see in full resolution here. I just found my new wallpaper!

Researchers have for the first time described an unique snail species that can only be found high on top Mount Kaputar in New South Wales, Australia. The snails exhibit an atypical coloring – fluorescent pink – and can grow as large as eight inches long, true giants by snail standards. Though Triboniophorus aff. graeffei has [...]

As we’ve already posted today, NASA’s GRAIL mission did a great job of mapping out the gravitational features of the Moon. Just as a quick add to that, here’s two maps which I hope you’ll find interesting:  

While browsing reddit, I came across something well worth sharing: shrunken coins. Now, bear with me and you’ll soon learn why these are really interesting, if you the photos themselves haven’t caught your fancy. You see all these coins have been shrunk by powerful magnetic fields created by high power coils inside a machine appropriately [...]

“Hey… so what do you do for a living?” “Well, I design balloon art.” Yes, there are people out there who are actually in this line of work. For instance, Larry Moss along with his partner, Kelly Cheatle, have been fashioning all kinds of objects, animals, structures and various other art entirely out of balloons [...]

The Pavlof volcano lies in the long chain of the Aleutian Islands off the west coast of Alaska, and is one of the most active volcanoes in the United States. It’s about seven kilometers (4 miles) across and 2500 meters (1.5 miles) high; after being quiet since 2007, it started erupting again in May 2013. [...]