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Branching patterns in mud make even puddles beautiful

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Branching patterns in mud make even puddles beautiful

This snap was taken by Spanish photographer Fran Rubia, who had been planning to capture the ice walls of the Iceland's biggest glacier. Instead he was captivated by this puddle at his feet

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See the diverse beauty of colourful land snails around the world

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See the diverse beauty of colourful land snails around the world

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The greenhouses hiding in the snow of Spain's Sierra Nevada

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The greenhouses hiding in the snow of Spain's Sierra Nevada

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Virtual reality gives you an insider view on life as a midge

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Virtual reality gives you an insider view on life as a midge

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Jet's shock waves captured against the sun's brightness

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Jet's shock waves captured against the sun's brightness

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The Large Magellanic Cloud, if van Gogh had painted it

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The Large Magellanic Cloud, if van Gogh had painted it

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Crash test dummies brace for next collision

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Crash test dummies brace for next collision

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Living fossil nautilus re-emerges after 30 years of hiding

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Living fossil nautilus re-emerges after 30 years of hiding

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Corals glow in spectacular colours thanks to ‘fluo-dive' lights

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Corals glow in spectacular colours thanks to ‘fluo-dive' lights

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Gibbon skeleton is brought to life with uncanny stereo vision

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Gibbon skeleton is brought to life with uncanny stereo vision

By taking two images just a few centimetres apart, artist Jim Naughten gives this gibbon, and many other animals, a strange sense of life and presence

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The Making of 2001: How Kubrick and Clarke designed the future

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Serene scene disguises colossal value of Canadian oil sands

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See eye to eye with the pig that had a beard before it was cool

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The Sahara desert has a giant eye and it's staring out to space

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