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An infinite array of lines intersecting at right angles in all directions, like an infinite jungle gym.
A photograph of a sodium-ion battery on a pile of salt. The battery is grey and the background of the image is black.
Schematic illustration of the inside of a battery.
A photograph of a white man with a short dark brown hair and a beard. The background contains a multitude of floating green-colored batteries.
Sequential photographs of a skyrmion forming.
Photo of a dense rainforest
Glass models of the marine animal Trichoplax, made by assembling multiple “cells” in a disk-shaped mold.
A combined Airy pattern and noise surface without and with coincidence detection.
A white man with grey hair and a beard standing in front of a white board covered in graphs.
A graphic showing a sphere rolling over a surface covered with green cones. A closeup shows that the sphere is covered with Pac-Man-like enzymes that bind to and cut off the cone-shaped tips of peptides bound to the surface.
A woman in safety spectacles is looking at a thin-film of diamond growing.
Images of plant-cell-inspired actuators (left) and fiber-laden droplets (right) featured on winning posters of this year’s Gallery of Soft Matter.
A schematic showing a block of material with two arrows representing the electric and magnetic fields. A third arrow depicts the induced Hall current.
A reconstruction of the flame nebula.
A photograph of a bearded man wearing a white hard hat. He is standing aboard a large shipping vessel as it sails along the St. Lawrence Estuary in Quebec, Canada.
Nuclear fragments move past each other at high speed and generate a magnetic field between them in a location where there is also a multicolored collection of particles representing a quark–gluon plasma.
Photo of a water strider—an insect that can walk on water.
An array of red circles and green crosses. Red circles fill the upper left corner and green crosses the rest of the image. One red circle contains a yellow star.
Sunlight streaming over water waves.
A series of different straight and curvy line patterns. The colors switch between red, white, blue, purple, and black.
A photograph of experimental apparatus.
A photo showing an assortment of transistors and other electronic components.
A gray-scale photograph of a worm.
Off-white galaxy with brown and orange stripes going along its edge.
A three-dimensional simulation shows a projectile hitting a cube-shaped target that contains small bubble-like cavities that channel the collision energy to a capsule containing fusion fuel.
Part of the inertial-confinement-fusion system at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
A thin vine forms a loose helix that curls four times around a horizontal green stem.
A map of Mars with a handful of randomly arranged green patches where auroras occur. Some of these patches align with regions where the crustal field is strongest.
Water droplets of different sizes on a yellow surface.