This isn’t candy. Nor is it splinters of wood from a multi-colored tree. In fact, it’s a false-colored scanning electron micrograph showing caffeine crystals in close-up detail. No wonder the stuff gets you going first thing in the morning. More »
Did somebody open the Lost Ark in New York City or are the Ghostbusters back in town? I’m stuck at the airport right now and my flight has been delayed because of the insanely huge storm that is hammering the city right now. Just look at this picture, instagrammed by Dhani Jones. More »
Photographer Dallas Nagata White and her husband were visiting the Kilauea lava flow in Hawaii when it started to rain. They decided to take some back-lit photos using her DSLR, a tripod, and a wireless flash system, ending with what I think is the hottest kiss ever photographed. More »
Mike Rowe, we love your stuff on the Discovery Channel. Dirty Jobs! But one job that isn’t dirty is being a grillmaster, when your grill is an imaginary grill that’s actually a metal shelving unit in a Ford advertisement. Yum! More »
The self-portrait is a risky, easily mangled gambit. It can go very wrong. So if you’re going to take the plunge, go for gold and do something like shooting yourself in the cockpit of an F-16D Fighting Falcon. More »
Deron Williams, NBA point guard and savior of ironic sport liking, just inked a new contract to stay with the Brooklyn Nets. Well, inked is the wrong word as Williams actually signed his 5 year $98 million contract on an iPad. With his finger. More »
In 2010, a lake of caustic, poison mud from an aluminum manufacturing operation spilled out and destroyed a nearby town, along with much of the native life. Humans were killed and burned, property destroyed. And it still looks like Mars. More »
This photo of aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman is incredible—and it looks like a lot of fun too. I imagine the helmsman pushing the rudder and whispering “wowwheeeee!” More »
This is the scar left by the terrible Waldo Canyon Fire that burned through 18,247 acres (74 square kilometers) in Pike National Forest, three miles west of Colorado Springs. With 346 homes incinerated, two lives lost and hundreds of millions of dollars in damage, it was the most destructive fire in Colorado history. More »
This is U Camelopardalis, a carbon star 1,500 light years away from Earth, in the constellation of the same name, near the North Celestial Pole. U Cam—as it is known—is at the end of its life, erupting layers of material from time to time: More »
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