Think it up and birth it

Nobody likes a bad kisser.

Big Bang: Photography by Marcel Christ

Underwater photographer Todd Bretl’s gorgeous images of the very photogenic bobtail squid.

New work by Photographer Fabian Oefner - This series is a continuation of my research of manipulating paint with different natural forces. In the “Black Hole” series, it was centrifugal force, that shaped the paints into colorful carousels. This time I used air pressure to create what I call “liquid jewels”.

Gelatin cubes dropped onto solid surface

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The photo sequence in the upper image shows, left to right, a fluid-filled tube falling under gravity, impacting a rigid surface, and rebounding upward. During free-fall, the fluid wets the sides of the tube, creating a hemispherical meniscus. After impact, the surface curvature reverses dramatically to form an intense jet. If, on the other hand, the tube is treated so that it is hydrophobic, the contact angle between the liquid and the tube will be 90 degrees during free-fall, impact, and rebound, as shown in the lower image sequence. The liquid simply falls and rebounds alongside the tube, without any deformation of the air-liquid interface. (Photo credit: A. Antkowiak et al.)

Tardigrade facts.

The Sun, seen in different wavelengths of light.

More art by Rare Minimum!

Sam Droege - The USGS Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Program designs and develops large and small scale surveys for native bees. As part of that program we also develop identification tools and keys for native bee species. One aspect of creating those tools is creating accurate and detailed pictures of native bees and the plants and insects they interact with. Photos were taken with a system developed by Dr. Anthony G Gutierrez and taken by Brooke Alexander, Sue Boo, Heagan Ahmed and Sierra Williams.

Alberto Seveso's gorgeous high-speed photos of ink diffusing in water have a dramatic sense of texture to them. Though still delicate, the whorls of fluid seem almost solid enough to touch. Watch the edges, though, and you can see thin wisps of color and hints of instabilities. Like cream poured into coffee, these ink sculptures are short-lived. Some of his works are available as prints or wallpapers (zip file). (Photo credit: Alberto Seveso)

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A Knot Zoo.