Pictured: Incredible gravity-defying ant that can carry 100 times its body weight
The photo shows an Asian weaver ant hanging upside down on a glass-like surface and holding a 500mg weight in its jaws. It was captured by Dr Thomas Endlein of Zoology department at the University of Cambridge who was investigating the sticky feet of ants and other insects.
No mention of results of any steroids testing on the ant.
And a video
I remember seeing the first night launch from Orlando. But these are from a slightly closer vantage point.
Arts: Photographer Loves Math, Graphs Her Images
Graziano, a math and photography student at Rochester Institute of Technology, overlays graphs and their corresponding equations onto her carefully composed photos. “I wanted to create something that could communicate how awesome math is, to everyone,” she says. Graziano doesn’t go out looking for a specific function but lets one find her instead. Once she’s got an image she likes, Graziano whips up the numbers and tweaks the function until the graph it describes aligns perfectly with the photograph.
A little like Matt’s Sunday Function over at Built on Facts, only with pretty pictures in addition to the graphs.
More virtual vacation visits. 360º Panoramic view from Mt. Everest
Solar eclipse picture, showing the Sun’s corona.
Composition of 38 eclipse images. Eclipse images calibrated by means of dark frames and flat-fields, aligned by means of phase correlation, composed by means of LDIC 5.0 software, processed using Corona 4.1 in order to visualize coronal structures.
Guns and roses: The photographer who literally shoots his subjects
Flavour explosion: Cherry tomatoes dipped in liquid nitrogen made for stunning results. The artist shot both red and yellow varieties
The Big Picture: 100 days in Glacier National Park is a collection culled from the blog/journal of the same name. The Big Picture has bigger pictures (imagine that) but the journal has more annotations.
