[TGEF] 366 days: Images of the year - Nature (2012)

 

#2. BLOOD, BRAIN AND BEAUTY

 (by Jennifer L. Peters/Michael R. Taylor/St Jude Children’s Research Hospital/Nikon Small World)

A filigree of blood vessels makes up the blood–brain barrier, which helps to protect our grey matter from infection. This picture of the developing barrier in a live zebrafish embryo, taken by Jennifer Peters and Michael Taylor of St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, won first prize in the Nikon Small World competition.

 

 

#3. NOT IN KANSAS ANY MORE

(by Camille Seaman)

Nebraska, actually. The United States saw its share of extreme weather this year, from the most extensive drought in half a century to the violence of Superstorm Sandy. Fortunately, this tornado-spawning mesocyclone in June passed farm buildings in Gurley without giving them a one-way trip to Oz.

 

 

#9. COFFEE CULTURE

(by Annie Cavanagh/David McCarthy/Wellcome Images Awards 2012/Wellcome Images)

A view you don’t see every day of something you probably do. These caffeine crystals, imaged under an electron microscope and false-coloured by Annie Cavanagh and David McCarthy at University College London, form part of a cluster just a few tens of micrometres in length.

 

 

#11. NO MATCH FOR SIZE

(by Frank Glaw)

This dwarf chameleon (Brookesia micra) from Madagascar was formally recognized as a new species in February. Admittedly, this is a juvenile, but adults are not much larger: males reach just 16 millimetres in length and females grow to a whopping 30 mm, making this the smallest lizard in the world.

 

 

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연말이면 언론은 늘 올해의 사진으로 한 해를 정리합니다. 올해의 국내 톱사건은 박근혜 대통령 당선이었죠. 세상은 늘 굵직한 이슈들로 가득했지만 정작 제 자신은 큰 사건보다 작은 발견과 실험들로 채워진 한 해가 아니었나 싶습니다. 그래서 NYT의 '올해의 사건'들보다 네이처의 '올해의 발견'들이 더 눈이 가더군요. 몸 속의 아주 작은 세상과 하늘 위의 우주를 우리에게 보여주는 그들의 시야가 그저 경이로울 따름입니다. 우엉우엉.

 

 

* Nature 기사 원문 : 366 days: Images of the year

** NewsPeppermint의 포스팅 '네이처紙가 선정한 올해의 사진'

*** Nicon Small World : http://www.nikonsmallworld.com/