TOP GALLERY
The eye-catching best of fluid dynamics
This week, physicists at the Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, exhibited their best experimental images in a gallery of fluid motion
LATEST GALLERIES
The sweeter side of volcanoes
11:17 25 November 2009
There is much more to volcanoes than just fireballs and noxious gas – see a different side of them in our gallery
Melting Arctic: Forget polar bears, worry about humans
ESSAY: 14:10 23 November 2009 | 86 comments
Climate change is transforming the Arctic so fast that many species could be gone within our lifetimes. But the important thing is to put human self-interest first, says Alun Anderson
Pickled evidence for evolution
GALLERY: 17:09 20 November 2009
Animal specimens preserved in jars look Victorian, but the images in Evidence of Evolution show there's still nothing better for studying new species
The Mandelbulb: first 'true' 3D image of famous fractal
13:31 18 November 2009 | 50 comments
A group of fractal image makers claim to have made the best three-dimensional portrayal to date of the Mandelbrot set, the most famous fractal equation
SPACE
Snapshots from inside an exploding star
Physicists at the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago have used a supercomputer to model the extreme physics of a supernova explosion
MORE GALLERIES
Meteor shower this week as we cut through comet trails
18:00 15 November 2009 | 25 comments
Hundreds of Leonid meteors an hour will stream across the sky on Tuesday when the Earth passes through old comet streams
A joyride through the nanoworld
BOOKS & ARTS: 00:00 11 November 2009
George Whitesides and Felice Frankel take you on a whirlwind tour of the tiny in No Small Matter: Science on the nanoscale
Super-efficient cars racing to win the X prize
18:28 09 November 2009 | 42 comments
With $10 million prize money at stake, the race to build energy-thrifty cars that appeal to the mass market is hotting up
Triple shadows and fake reflections: Future graphics
13:50 04 November 2009 | 1 comment
See computer graphics research to be presented at the ACM Siggraph Asia conference next month – including an art installation that casts three distinct shadows
Ten inventions that changed the world
10:41 04 November 2009
See the result of a public vote to find the most important invention ever from the collection of the Science Museum, London
PHYSICS
Giant crystals and spherical flames: science in microgravity
The International Space Station may still be under construction, but microgravity research has been under way for decades. We round up some of the coolest experiments so far
