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Life

Crystallised tears form beautiful patterns unique as snowflakes

Maurice Mikkers makes his friends cry. Then, he lets the tears evaporate and photographs the unique, intricate patterns of crystallised salt they leave behind

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glass mountain

Earth

Giant mountains of green glass prepare to face the heat

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salt

Life

India’s salt harvesters toil for crystals under the baking sun

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Staring into the heart of an artificial tree

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Staring into the heart of an artificial tree

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Dramatic landscape shaped by Iceland's devastating eruption

Earth

Dramatic landscape shaped by Iceland's devastating eruption

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Space

Space age ghosts show abandoned relics of NASA's golden years

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Space age ghosts show abandoned relics of NASA's golden years

Space

Space age ghosts show abandoned relics of NASA's golden years

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Night-time mouse ninjas caught in mid-air fight for food

Life

Night-time mouse ninjas caught in mid-air fight for food

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Italy's fertile Fucino valley, imaged from space

Italy's fertile Fucino valley, imaged from space

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Deep-sea creatures float through black water at night

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Deep-sea creatures float through black water at night

Upwelling currents bring deep sea water close to the surface near the Japanese coast, carrying these strange life forms rarely seen by humans

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Technology

Soviet-era bootleg music recorded on discarded X-ray plates

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Space

LISA Pathfinder spacecraft ready for lift-off

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Life

Here's my nuptial gift, a dead planthopper – now can we mate?

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Space

See Soviet tech survivors of the cold war abandoned in the snow

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