This
picture looks like some tube-shaped creatures caressing a ball. They
are caressing, alright, but they aren’t even living things!
An
electron microscope photograph shows self-assembling hair-like polymers
around a polystyrene sphere, about two micrometers in diameter. It won
first place in the National Science Foundation's 2009 International
Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge.
Self-assembling
plastic is a pretty far out concept, but the detail and color in a
microscopic image is amazing in itself. This is just one of
a collection of fascinating scientific images,
one for each year going back to 2005, covering a wide variety of
disciplines, at HuffPo. Some you' ve seen here before, but are worth a second look.
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