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Physicsworld best science pictures of 2012

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Art of Science 2011

"The Art of Science exhibition explores the interplay between science and art. These practices both involve the pursuit of those moments of discovery when what you perceive suddenly becomes more than the sum of its parts. Each piece in this exhibition is, in its own way, a record of such a moment.

This is the fifth Art of Science competition hosted by Princeton University. The 2011 competition drew 168 submissions from 20 departments. The exhibit includes work by undergraduates, faculty, research staff, graduate students, and alumni.

The 56 works chosen for the 2011 Art of Science exhibition represent this year’s theme of “intelligent design” which we interpret in the broadest sense. These extraordinary images are not art for art’s sake. Rather, they were produced during the course of scientific research. Entries were chosen for their aesthetic excellence as well as scientific or technical interest." - Excerpt from the Website

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Airbus Concept Cabin

Part of the Airbus Concept Plane of 2050. A video can be found in the website linked above and another one on YouTube here.

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Science Sculptures by Bathsheba Grossman

"I'm an artist exploring the region between art and mathematics. My work is about life in three dimensions: working with symmetry and balance, getting from the origin to infinity, and always finding beauty in geometry." - Bathsheba Grossman

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Worldprocessor by Ingo Gunther

A data visualization project that run up to 2005. The project unfortunately seems to have stopped by now, but the globes can still be seen in the webpage linked above, or more directly here.

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Artologica by Michele Banks

Watercolor paintings inspired by Biology. These and other paintings are available on Etsy at the link above.

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Astrophotography by Jason Jennings

When being a person gets stressful, as it tends to do, I sometimes take time out to just appreciate this strange and bewitching universe. I fill my head with thoughts of the stellar winds of a thousand newborn stars; of images we’ve captured of ancient galaxies nearly as old as the universe itself; of distant worlds with triple-sunned-skies; of comets in the Oort Cloud plunging around the sun like a cloud of electrons around the burning heart of our atomic solar system… And I have to remind myself that these places actually exist in the same world as exams and crippling anxiety and politics and terrorism and poverty. But I don’t wonder at the universe’s vastness to make myself feel small or make my problems seem less significant—instead, I take comfort in the fact that I’m directly connected to the stars, and that no matter what happens, I’ll always belong to the universe as a little part of an immense cosmic ecosystem.

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Artforms of Nature by Ernst Haeckel (1904)

Wikipedia:

"Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (February 16, 1834 – August 9, 1919), also written von Haeckel, was an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including anthropogeny, ecology, phylum, phylogeny, stem cell, and the kingdom Protista. Haeckel promoted and popularized Charles Darwin's work in Germany and developed the controversial recapitulation theory ("ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny") claiming that an individual organism's biological development, or ontogeny, parallels and summarizes its species' evolutionary development, or phylogeny."

The book was released to Public Domain. You can download all the plates in high resolution from the Wikimedia Commons Website. There you can also find the legends for the plates and more information.

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The many colors of fluorite (CaF2).

Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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A Virtual Space-Time Travel Machine

The art of Jean-François Colonna

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Malwarez by Alex Dragulesco

"Malwarez is a series of visualization of worms, viruses, trojans and spyware code. For each piece of disassembled code, API calls, memory addresses and subroutines are tracked and analyzed. Their frequency, density and grouping are mapped to the inputs of an algorithm that grows a virtual 3D entity. Therefore the patterns and rhythms found in the data drive the configuration of the artificial organism." - From Alex Dragulesco's Website

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BevShots: Art Distilled:

"BevShots® are photographs of alcohol under a microscope. These high-quality photographs of your favorite beers, wines, cocktails, liquors and mixers were taken after they have been crystallized on a slide and shot under a polarized light microscope. As the light refracts through the beverage crystals, the resulting photos have naturally magnificent colors and composition."

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Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Radiation

Wikipedia:

"In cosmology, cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation (also CMBR, CBR, MBR, and relic radiation) is thermal radiation filling the observable universe almost uniformly. Cosmic background radiation is well explained as radiation left over from an early stage in the development of the universe, and its discovery is considered a landmark test of the Big Bang model of the universe."

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NASA X-43

Wikipedia:

"The X-43 is an unmanned experimental hypersonic aircraft with multiple planned scale variations meant to test various aspects of hypersonic flight. It was part of NASA's Hyper-X program and has set several airspeed records for jet-propelled aircraft. The X-43 is the fastest aircraft on record at over 6,500 miles per hour (10,461 Km/H)."