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Hamlet
Sijie Lin, Priyanka Bhattacharya, Tatsiana Ratnikova and ...
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in it”, (ACT II, Hamlet). This image was obtained as part of an experiment to study the interaction of nanoparticles with cellulose, the major ...
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Light from Light
Suellen Floyd Pometto
Butterfly wings are an exquisite medium in which to convey the connections between science and art. They are as delicate, yet complex, as the cycle of life. The scales of the Morpho butterfly ...
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Mimicking Nature: Fiber Based Microprobe
Daria Monaenkova, Marius Chyasnavichys and Taras Andrukh
This image of a butterfly feeding and a nanofiber yarn absorbing a microdrop illustrates a promising application of electrospun nanofiber yarns, an emerging technology being developed by ...
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Secret of the Rock-Climbing Ability in Fishes
Takashi Maie and Eric Livingston
The pelvic fins of goby fishes are fused together to form a single pelvic sucker. The pelvic sucker allows adhesion by generating negative pressure relative to the surrounding pressure and thus ...
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The Stellated Truncated Icosahedron, made of Sonobe Units
Matthew King
This entry shows the strength of mathematical polyhedral, as this model is made entirely without glue or anything but ordinary paper. It is still quite stable because the various parts depend ...
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Five Tone Tetrahedra
Jason Fellers
This figure is made from Origami paper and is a five intersection tetrahedra, which can be inscribed in a dodecahedron (twelve regular pentagonal faces). This entry shows how math can be taught ...
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Giving Birth to a Droplet by Popping a Water Balloon
Daria Monaenkova, Marius Chyasnavichys, Taras Andrukh ...
The ability of human to process visual events is limited, and there are many scientifically interesting and important processes that happen too fast to observe with the naked eye. Have you ever ...
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Liquefaction
Nadarajah Ravichandran and Brian Machmer
When the saturated loose sand is subjected to an earthquake shaking, the soil micro-structure collapses and the sand loses its load carrying capacity. This phenomenon is called soil ...
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The Principle of Superposition: Abstract
Hayden Childers
In an attempt to create an abstract painting based on a physics theory, this represents the principle of superposition. This theory, when applied to optics, states that when two or more waves ...
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Water
Craig Campbell
This map depicts a portion of South Carolina’s river system in the Piedmont region of the state. The solid yellow shapes are Lake Murray (lower right), Lake Greenwood (left), Monticello ...
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Fractal Plastic
Ian Stocks
This composite image was created by duplicating a pattern that was formed as an accidental by-product of a process for slide mounting mites. The procedure uses a mounting medium called Hoyer’s, ...
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Nano Honey Florets
Ramakrishna Podila, Bevan Elliott and Apparao Rao
Zinc oxide is a wide band gap semi-conducting material with very interesting properties, and is useful for optoelectronics and spintronics. At the nano-level it forms a wide variety of ...
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Origami Hyperbolic Plane
Neil Calkin
The hyperbolic plane was one of the first non-Euclidean geometries to be discovered in the 19th century. However, even the two dimensional hyperbolic plane is hard to represent: it doesn't fit ...
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Silhouette
Ashley Triplett
Through the use of a digital medium, a human-like character was abstracted into a deformable, organic object that slowly cuts away pieces of herself to the point of self destruction. A small ...
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La Cuadrada (She Who Is Squared)
Kevin Human, Micah Guy, Shirley Yu and Pisut Wisessing
Inspired by the work of the early 20th century Argentine poet, Alfonsina Storni, the purpose of this short digital animation is to celebrate her work while showing how the meaning of her words ...
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Layout of an Integrated Circuit
Nishant Gupta and Githin Alapatt
The design of an integrated circuit (IC) starts with the functional description of the circuit and ends with the fabrication of different layers on a silicon wafer. There are about 700 steps ...
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When Worlds Collide
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