Witness the Birth of a Snowflake

Witness the Birth of a Snowflake

One of the more technically creative time lapses we’ve seen in a long while, Snowtime is a 2-minute "microscopic time-lapse" by Vyacheslav Ivanov that captures the mesmerizing bloom of budding ice crystals in all their hexagonal glory.

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This Picture Shows Individual Atomic Bonds Inside a Molecule [Image Cache]

This isn’t the view through your childhood kaleidoscope. Nor is it an alien craft come to beam you up. In fact, it’s the world’s first atomic force microscopy image of chemical bonds inside an individual molecule. More »