Science in Images

Bubbles shaped like teardrops, flattened eggs and worms reveal ice’s inner life

These bizarre-looking clouds form in stable atmospheric eddies

Tardigrades are microscopic animals that can survive a host of conditions that are too extreme to ever occur on Earth—and scientists want to learn their secrets

A newly released image from the James Webb Space Telescope provides a detailed view of a star’s infancy

This year’s most interesting space images include infrared views of galactic “bones,” an asteroid’s double moon, Jupiter’s giant polar vortex, and more

The complexity of the brain comes to life in the annual Art of Neuroscience competition

The goofy-looking elephantnose fish “sees” its environment in three dimensions by creating a weak electric field and doing a little shimmy

A striking purple species is one piece of the fungal kingdom’s uncharted diversity

A dazzling new map lights up the fruit fly brain

A volatile compound makes nematodes food for oyster mushrooms

Before exploding as supernovae, massive Wolf-Rayet stars spew gas and dust into space, seeding the formation of future stellar and planetary systems

Butterfly markings work better when they’re “looking” toward prey