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Micrographia 1

Life

Meticulous engravings that gave first glimpse of the invisible

In 1665, Robert Hooke's Micrographia brought micrscopic observations of objects smaller than a grain of sand out of the laboratory and into the wider world

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fuel SEM 1

Technology

The spongy fuel that's made from trees

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frog 1

Life

Gorgeous rainbow frogs come in different colours on every island

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glacier

Earth

Satellite's eye view reveals retreating glaciers in the Andes

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Aperture 1

Humans

Brain images display the beauty and complexity of consciousness

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SPIDER reactor

Physics

Inside the SPIDER facility, preparing for nuclear fusion tests

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man in lab

Life

Nearly abandoned lab in Tanzanian mountains is 70s time capsule

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sun's movements

Technology

Solar time lapse burns through film to create a unique look

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blenny fish

Life

Wary blenny fish pokes its head out from a Caribbean reef

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Alaska

Earth

Pink mountains light up in otherworldly view of fjord

These peaks are part of the Tracy Arm, a 43-kilometre-long fjord near Juneau, Alaska, and photographed with an infrared, ultraviolet, and visible light camera

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Life

Pink weevil spreads its wings to prepare for rainforest take-off

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Earth

Marine life is rubbish... at least in these pictures

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Life

Drone spots humpback whales and orcas moving in on cloud of fish

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Life

Feel the pinch: A pioneer of science photography does crab claws

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