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Picture of the Day: Algae Bloom
The stunning picture above shows several phytoplankton blooms as seen from space, and was made available to the public by the NASA Earth Observatory. According to Live Science, the blooms appeared just...
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Picture of the Day: Venus
Artist’s impression of an active volcano on Venus. Results from a long-term study of Venus find evidence of a clear injection of sulphur dioxide into its upper atmosphere. One possible interpretation...
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Picture of the Day: Orion
Humans have been gazing at Orion for millennia, but they’ve never seen it as beautiful as this. Granted, we can’t actually see it like the photo above would suggest, as the fiery glow is only visible...
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Picture of the Day: Colliding binary star winds
An artist’s rendering of a colliding wind binary. A colliding-wind binary is a binary star system in which the two members are massive stars that emit powerful, radiatively-driven stellar winds....
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Picture of the Day: Fairy Circles
Credit: Image courtesy of N. Juergens Fairy circles are circular patches of perennial grasses with a barren center that emerge in the deserts along the southwest coast of Africa. Dotting the Namibian...
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Picture of the Day: Guess what this is
Photograph courtesy Bryan William Jones, University of Utah A cross-section of a mouse eye reveals complex signs of metabolism—chemical changes in cells that release energy—in the eye’s tissues. The...
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Picture of the Day: Is this a monkey..?
A tiny goby fish peering out from a coral labyrinth, a beautiful sphere representing Earth’s winds, and a Medusa-like tangle of worms are among the amazing entrants to this year’s Art of Science...
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Picture of the Day: Bad hair day
Paralyzed worms frozen in a falling leaf pattern. Above, color-stained worms reveal the location of their DNA (blue) and RNA (red) while curling wildly like the hair atop Medusa. The image, which won...
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Picture of the Day: Frozen in motion
The aptly named Caenorhabditis elegans worms imitate silver leaves in “Weaving Worms.” These smooth, unsegmented worms were paralyzed with sodium azide as part of an experiment testing how they...
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Picture of the Day: The North-American nebula
Here’s a truly gorgeous image by astrophotographer Mick Hyde, a mosaic of NGC 7000 (the North American nebula) and the Pelican nebula (IC 5070). The structure on the upper left side is the North...
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Picture of the Day: Double moons
A new photograph released by NASA presents two of Saturn’s moons, Mimas and Pandora, in the same shot. The picture was taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft and stresses the difference between the two...
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Picture of the Day: Monster Saturn Storm
Cassini has been circling Saturn for years, but it’s still revealing spectacular things about the planet. Violent weather provides a great spectacle on Earth, as long as it doesn’t actually destroy...
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Picture of the Day: Marblelike Miracle
In a “Mindblowing Rainbow,” Vero cells from the kidney of a monkey have been exposed to a herpes virus. The virus causes them to express proteins tagged by the scientists in a rainbow of...
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Picture of the Day: The thinnest anticorrosive coating
New research has established graphene as the thinnest known coating for protecting metals against corrosion.In a new study, researchers of the Vanderbilt University (USA) have evaluated graphene as a...
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