Incredible New Photos Taken From the Surface of a Comet
Humankind made history this year when the Rosetta mission made the first-ever landing on a comet. Though the lander, Philae stopped working sooner than hoped, it had already sent back a few amazing images, the first ever taken from the surface of a comet. In this image you can see one of Philae's legs next to a cliff wall. ESA/ROSETTA/PHILAE/CIVA
Humankind made history this year when the Rosetta mission made the first-ever landing on a comet. Though the lander, Philae stopped working sooner than hoped, it had already sent back a few amazing images, the first ever taken from the surface of a comet. In this image you can see one of Philae's legs next to a cliff wall.
The XKCD Guide to the Universe's Most Bizarre Physics
For the December issue of WIRED, Randall Munroe, author of the XKCD comics and the new book What If: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, explained dimensions for us. The image above is a, uh, 4-D cube? Randall Munroe
For the December issue of WIRED, Randall Munroe, author of the XKCD comics and the new book What If: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, explained dimensions for us. The image above is a, uh, 4-D cube?
Amazingly Vivid Dino Illustrations Reveal a Brutal Prehistoric World
These awesome images from the book The Paleoart of Julius Csotonyi depict beautiful, often brutal scenes from prehistory. This image shows an encounter between the giant shark Carcharocles (jaw diameter estimated at 11 feet) and a medium-sized proboscidean, Platybelodon. Julius Csotonyi
These awesome images from the book The Paleoart of Julius Csotonyi depict beautiful, often brutal scenes from prehistory. This image shows an encounter between the giant shark Carcharocles (jaw diameter estimated at 11 feet) and a medium-sized proboscidean, Platybelodon.
Incredible Historical Photos From One of the World’s Best Museums
When we learned that the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago was posting many of its historical photos online, we couldn’t wait to dive in. We love weird old stuff, and it turns out, so do you. This image from 1900 of a zookeeper feeding an American black bear is one of our favorites (yes, those bears are real). © THE FIELD MUSEUM, Z79947
When we learned that the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago was posting many of its historical photos online, we couldn’t wait to dive in. We love weird old stuff, and it turns out, so do you. This image from 1900 of a zookeeper feeding an American black bear is one of our favorites (yes, those bears are real).
WIRED Space Photo of the Day for January, 2014
Every day, we find one mind-blowing image of space for you. We check the latest output from telescopes, spacecraft, rovers, orbiters and astronauts. And if we don't find something new that we love, we sift through the archives to find something worthy of wall-paper. This beauty is an image of the Lagoon Nebula taken by VLT Survey Telescope (VST) in Chile. ESO/VPHA+TEAM
The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile has captured this richly detailed new image of the Lagoon Nebula. This giant cloud of gas and dust is creating intensely bright young stars, and is home to young stellar clusters. This image is a tiny part of just one of eleven public surveys of the sky now in progress using ESO telescopes. Together these are providing a vast legacy of publicly available data for the global astronomical community.
15 Incredible Photos That’ll Remind You to Be Awed by Planet Earth
This photo is the grand Prize Winner in the California Academy of Sciences’ annual BigPicture competition. The contest challenges photographers to capture the complexities and the beauty of life on planet Earth. PAUL SOUDERS (SEATTLE, WASHINGTON)
This photo is the grand Prize Winner in the California Academy of Sciences’ annual BigPicture competition. The contest challenges photographers to capture the complexities and the beauty of life on planet Earth.
Spending 15 Minutes With a Great White Shark on a Boat Deck
Most people don’t want to come face-to-face with a great white. But scientists on Ocearch research expeditions are thrilled to spend 15 minutes with the behemoths every time they catch one, enough for up to 12 different tests. This gallery shows you what that's like. COURTESY OF OCEARCH/ROBERT SNOW
Most people don’t want to come face-to-face with a great white. But scientists on Ocearch research expeditions are thrilled to spend 15 minutes with the behemoths every time they catch one, enough for up to 12 different tests. This gallery shows you what that's like.
The Best Earth Pics From the Newest Landsat Satellite
Landsat 8 is the latest satellite in a 40-plus-year-mission to continuously observe the earth. Its first year in orbit produced some fantastic images. The mosaic above is a nearly cloudless map of the contiguous United States made from Landsat 8 data. COURTESY DAVID ROY, USGS-NASA WELD PRODUCT
Landsat 8 is the latest satellite in a 40-plus-year-mission to continuously observe the earth. Its first year in orbit produced some fantastic images. The mosaic above is a nearly cloudless map of the contiguous United States made from Landsat 8 data.
Here’s How People 100 Years Ago Thought We’d Be Living Today
In 100 years, there will be flying taxis, routine trips to the moon, and knowledge will be instilled into students through wires attached to their heads. This is how people a century ago saw the future (our present). These vintage European postcards illustrate a view of the 21st century that is remarkably prescient in some ways and hilariously wrong in others. Courtesy of Ed Fries
In 100 years, there will be flying taxis, routine trips to the moon, and knowledge will be instilled into students through wires attached to their heads. This is how people a century ago saw the future (our present). These vintage European postcards illustrate a view of the 21st century that is remarkably prescient in some ways and hilariously wrong in others.
Shape-Shifting Wings, From Soviet War Planes to Top Gun’s Tomcat
In the 1940s, German engineers discovered that pivoting an airplane’s wing made it both faster and more efficient. NASA ran with the concept, and developed the AD-1, a plane that could pivot its wing 60 degrees. This is just one of many examples of aerial shape shifters. NASA
In the 1940s, German engineers discovered that pivoting an airplane’s wing made it both faster and more efficient. NASA ran with the concept, and developed the AD-1, a plane that could pivot its wing 60 degrees. This is just one of many examples of aerial shape shifters.
Exquisite, Disturbing Objects From 500 Years of Human Anatomical Science
For centuries people have been both fascinated by what’s inside the human body and squeamish about getting close enough to a cadaver to find out. The Body of Knowledge exhibit on the history of anatomy at Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments explores this tension. HARVARD MEDICAL LIBRARY/FRANCIS A. COUNTWAY LIBrary OF MEDICINE
For centuries people have been both fascinated by what’s inside the human body and squeamish about getting close enough to a cadaver to find out. The Body of Knowledge exhibit on the history of anatomy at Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments explores this tension.
The Coolest Spaceships Ever Built, Compared by Size
There are a lot of online resources for space history, but none can rival the combination of thorough and adorable you’ll find at the Historic Spacecraft collection. The site is full of information about recent and past launches, old space programs, and much more, but it owes its unique charm to Richard Kruse's drawings of spacecraft. RICHARD KRUSE
There are a lot of online resources for space history, but none can rival the combination of thorough and adorable you’ll find at the Historic Spacecraft collection. The site is full of information about recent and past launches, old space programs, and much more, but it owes its unique charm to Richard Kruse's drawings of spacecraft.
14 World-Changing Data Visualizations, From the Last 4 Centuries
Science may be difficult, but it doesn’t have to be ugly. These images, from an exhibit at the British Library, show how beautiful scientific data can be. The exhibit featured classic illustrations dating to 1603, including John Snow’s map of London’s SoHo that’s credited with revealing the source of an 1854 cholera outbreak. BRITISH LIBRARY
Science may be difficult, but it doesn’t have to be ugly. These images, from an exhibit at the British Library, show how beautiful scientific data can be. The exhibit featured classic illustrations dating to 1603, including John Snow’s map of London’s SoHo that’s credited with revealing the source of an 1854 cholera outbreak.
Science or Art? Beautiful Illustrations of Animals From 170 Years Ago
Published in 1844, the Atlas de Zoologie: ou collection de 100 planches contains illustrations of a number of creatures, some of which no longer walk this planet. This image shows a thylacine — a striped, carnivorous marsupial that went extinct when the last known individual died in a Tasmanian zoo in 1936. Biodiversity Heritage Library
Published in 1844, the Atlas de Zoologie: ou collection de 100 planches contains illustrations of a number of creatures, some of which no longer walk this planet. This image shows a thylacine — a striped, carnivorous marsupial that went extinct when the last known individual died in a Tasmanian zoo in 1936.
Engrossingly Gross Photos of Spiders and Insects Eating Each Other
These are some of the most detailed and (slightly) disturbing bug-meal photos you might ever see. They show the clever — and sometimes downright sadistic — strategies used by insects and spiders to catch and eat their prey. Nicky Bay
These are some of the most detailed and (slightly) disturbing bug-meal photos you might ever see. They show the clever — and sometimes downright sadistic — strategies used by insects and spiders to catch and eat their prey.
These Optical Illusions Trick Your Brain With Science
UK schoolchildren voted a book about optical illusions as the winner of this year’s Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize for science. “You cannot explain how many optical illusions work without giving the reader an idea of the brain’s structure and performance,” said Clive Gifford, author of Eye Benders: The Science of Seeing and Believing. CLIVE GIFFORD
UK schoolchildren voted a book about optical illusions as the winner of this year’s Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize for science. “You cannot explain how many optical illusions work without giving the reader an idea of the brain’s structure and performance,” said Clive Gifford, author of Eye Benders: The Science of Seeing and Believing.
Incredible Close-Up Drone Video of an Erupting Volcano in Iceland
Eric Cheng, director of aerial imaging for drone maker DJI, joined photographer Ragnar Th. Sigurdsson for a trip to the eruption site in the Bardarbunga volcanic system in Iceland this year. The resulting close-up photos and video are pretty incredible. Eric Cheng
Eric Cheng, director of aerial imaging for drone maker DJI, joined photographer Ragnar Th. Sigurdsson for a trip to the eruption site in the Bardarbunga volcanic system in Iceland this year. The resulting close-up photos and video are pretty incredible.
Every World Cup Country, Seen in Beautiful Images From Space
the variety of landscapes represented in the World Cup tournament this year is impressive, and the contrast between the homelands of the two teams on the field at any given time is often immense. Here is a look from space at the beautiful range of land forms in the 32 countries playing the beautiful game. NASA/USGS
the variety of landscapes represented in the World Cup tournament this year is impressive, and the contrast between the homelands of the two teams on the field at any given time is often immense. Here is a look from space at the beautiful range of land forms in the 32 countries playing the beautiful game.
Vintage Chemistry Sets Show We Used to Be Way More Chill About Chemicals
Chemistry sets seem to have fallen out of favor in recent years, but there’s a movement to bring them back—or at least recapture some of the unstructured experimentation the old sets encouraged. In this gallery, we take a look at some vintage sets from the collection of Philadelphia's Chemical Heritage Foundation Museum. JARED SOARES/WIRED
Chemistry sets seem to have fallen out of favor in recent years, but there’s a movement to bring them back—or at least recapture some of the unstructured experimentation the old sets encouraged. In this gallery, we take a look at some vintage sets from the collection of Philadelphia's Chemical Heritage Foundation Museum.
40 Years of the World’s Best Microscope Photos
Nikon's Small World photomicrography competition celebrated its 40th year in 2014. Here are the winning microscope photos from nearly every year of the contest. COURTESY OF NIKON SMALL WORLD
Nikon's Small World photomicrography competition celebrated its 40th year in 2014. Here are the winning microscope photos from nearly every year of the contest.
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