Science Behind the Photo #45
Taken from Issue 22. Although seemingly beautiful and serene, this fiery image shows the hundreds of millions of stars at the turbulent heart of the Milky Way, all cocooned in cosmic gas and dust. The...
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Andean Flamingos Pink bodied and yellow legged, these Andean Flamingos sift through shallow silt at sunset in the Atacama desert. Flamingos are filter-feeders, mainly eating microscopic algae that they...
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Salticidae Spider Depth perception takes on a whole new meaning when you have eight eyes. The spider in the picture belongs to the Salticidae family, which contains over 5000 described species. The...
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A Persian falconer’s prize, the Black Shaeen (Falco peregrinus peregrinator) is one of the fastest and treasured falcons, reaching speeds of up to 320km/h ...
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A malaysian giant forest ant meets a juvenile grass frog deep in the rainforests of Borneo ...
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It's the physical processes of refraction, reflection and constructive interference that create the explosion of colour in this giant bubble ...
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The Lovell Telescope was once the largest steerable radio telescope in the world and can be seen from miles around ...
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Camel racing in the Arabian Peninsula moves with the times and now that child jockeys are banned, robots are an appealing lightweight replacement ...
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Ruben Lenten, the king of extreme kiteboarding shows off his daredevil image with an extremely high aerodynamic lift ...
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How a sailing boat can move three times faster than the wind behind it!
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Science Behind the Photo #37
Sure-footed Some lizards can walk on water, others can walk up walls. It’s hard to tell from the photo whether this gecko is walking on the floor, up a vertical surface, or upside down across the...
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Science Behind the Photo #38
Taken from Issue 20. For nearly as long as we have been creating objects of value, we have been developing ways to keep them safe. Being a relatively untrusting species has meant that we have invested...
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Science Behind the Photo #39
With thanks to Adair Farrar The San Juan River Goosenecks State Park in Utah, USA, overlooks a deep meander of the San Juan River, a 600-km-long tributary of the Colorado River. One of the best...
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Science Behind the Photo #40
The Colour of Leaves Across the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, deciduous trees are pushing out bright green new leaves that unfurl from buds like verdant moths thrust slowly from winter...
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Science Behind the Photo #41
Rainbow Crystals X-ray crystallography is one way of finding out what a molecule consists of. It can show which atoms are present in a substance and how they are connected to one another. This involves...
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Science Behind the Photo #42
The Giant’s Causeway: World Heritage site, celebrity of ‘Visit Ireland’ publicity campaigns, subject of myth and legend Its beautiful, sculpted steps are iconic, but it may shock people to realise the...
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Science Behind the Photo #43
Taken from Issue 21. You’d be forgiven for thinking that this photo was an intricate model of a train set – but you would be mistaken. It is, in fact, a photograph of a life-sized DART train in Dublin,...
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Science Behind the Photo #44
Arizona Petrified Forest The badlands of Arizona, once thriving with lush forests of the Late Triassic, are now littered with the reminder of greener times. Beautifully preserved wood logs have...
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Science Behind The Photo #55
The Greenwich Prime Meridian: Jessica Norris explains the history and science behind this special landmark
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Science Behind the photo: Fibonacci Numbers
Yodit Feseha looks at the numbers that underlie much of nature, and how we see beauty
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