Environment
Feel the pinch: A pioneer of science photography does crab claws
Jean Painlevé was using films and stills to share his passion for marine life with French audiences long before David Attenborough's TV documentaries
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Humans in panda suits try to track down bears in the woods
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Seeking refuge in the heat of the night
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Physics
The pioneering snowflake photographs of a young obsessive
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Life
Early sketches of the brain show Ramón y Cajal’s artistic genius
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Life
Carbon cascade reveals fresh look to the element of life
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Dizzying view of orangutan hunting for figs wins photo prize
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Solar eclipses: heaven-sent chance to mix art and science
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Aerial pictures reveal England’s ancient archaeological sites
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Metamaterial lens is thinner than the light it bends and focuses
A novel design for ultra-thin lenses uses nanostructures to grab light and bend it to its will, and could someday find uses in microscopes and cameras
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Eider duck caught diving beneath the Norwegian waves
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Insects reveal an alien beauty in huge extreme close-up photos
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William Henry Fox Talbot and the birth of the photograph
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