A collection of starlings is called a murmuration

NASA-NOAA Satellite Reveals New Views of Earth at Night

An unprecedented new look at our planet at night. A global composite image, constructed using cloud-free night images from a new NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite, shows the glow of natural and human-built phenomena across the planet in greater detail than ever before.

Plant Study 001

Awaken to a dream world in origami

Amazing film animated in styrofoam

The Eagleman Stag

- The larger our past gets the smaller our present feels -

2011 BAFTA award winning short film from Mikey Please.

Photograph by Vadim Trunov

Planets viewed from Earth as if they were at the distance of our moon

Stacked from 15 exposures of 1/5 second at ISO 100. This image is a mosaic of 15 separate and slightly overlapping 8.2 megapixel images.

Flock of Birds, Aberystwyth, Wales

Light painting with a matrix rig: long exposure bullet time.

This is why it’s called a matrix rig:

To understand is to perceive patterns

Networks are everywhere. The brain is a network of nerve cells connected by axons, and cells themselves are networks of molecules connected by biochemical reactions. Societies, too, are networks of people linked by friendships, familial relationships and professional ties. On a larger scale, food webs and ecosystems can be represented as networks of species. And networks pervade technology: the Internet, power grids and transportation systems are but a few examples. Even the language we are using to convey these thoughts to you is a network, made up of words connected by syntactic relationships.

For decades, we assumed that the components of such complex systems as the cell, the society, or the Internet are randomly wired together. In the past decade, an avalanche of research has shown that many real networks, independent of their age, function, and scope, converge to similar architectures, a universality that allowed researchers from different disciplines to embrace network theory as a common paradigm.

Jellyfish Cotylorhiza tuberculata drifting just beneath the surface looking for capturing the first sunrays to trigger their symbiotic algae to produce energy for it. Mar Menor coastal lagoon, Murcia province, Spain.

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The Great Red Spot is larger than the Earth.

A supercell thunderstorm rolls across the Montana prairie at sunset.

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Skydiving from space.