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Maths Village - Piero Castellano Sirince (Izmir, Turkey)

Mathematics

These images explore a 'utopic' village built for teaching maths

The Nesin Mathematics Village in western Turkey was dreamed up by award-winning mathematician Ali Nesin to engage his students

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Marsh deer crosses the Transpantanal roadway amid thick smoke from the forest fire.

Environment

See how fire has changed the world's largest wetland, the Pantanal

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Page 264 233. In the centre front, two pairs of seated humans drink from the same gourd and two other pairs are engraved behind. At the back right are petroglyphs of two pairs of mirrored ostriches and two armed men with triangular-shaped torsos. Bronze and Iron Age, Abragz bin Samra, Great Nafud Desert, northern Saudi Arabia. Photo 2020.

Humans

Ancient rock art revealed in all its glory in stunning photographs

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$PAGE 20 MOMENT A while ago, I borrowed a piece of opal from a geological museum to photograph for a book I was working on. Using my ?real? camera, I had to figure out a good composition for a picture of this complicated mineral. Notice the larger light-blue ?veins? running across the image. I used them as organizational elements, to create sections to help the viewer decide how to look at the image. PHENOMENON Over many years of geological time, opal is slowly formed as many small spheres of silica (what glass is made of) self-assemble into perfectly ordered layers. Diffraction (not to be confused with refraction) occurs when light passes through the spheres and gaps, and it is split into the colors of the visible spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. The diameter of the spheres and the spacing between them determines the colors that we see. Light reflected from the different stacked layers creates interference effects.$

Life

Can you work out what these enigmatic close-up photos are of?

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Aerial view of the round structures of the AmazonFACE experiment built in a National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA) research area, located 80 km north of Manaus. AmazonFACE is one of the largest scientific experiments ever conducted in the Amazon. It simulates, in a tropical forest area, the impact of the increase in atmospheric CO2 predicted for the coming decades. Using FACE (Free Air CO2 Enrichment) technology, the project seeks to understand how climate change will affect the forest, its biodiversity, and the beneficial functions it currently carries out.

Environment

Testing the Amazon's ability to soak up increasing carbon emissions

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Images reveal the astonishing complexity of the microscopic world

Life

Images reveal the astonishing complexity of the microscopic world

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'Horrific and beautiful' whale rescue image wins photography prize

Life

'Horrific and beautiful' whale rescue image wins photography prize

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Dramatic images show where water and humanity meet

Environment

Dramatic images show where water and humanity meet

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Remarkable robot images provide a vision of the future

Technology

Remarkable robot images provide a vision of the future

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A Cornish Rex cat named Stella

Life

Cats revealed in all their glory in stunning new photographs

Photographer Tim Flach's new book Feline explores the mysterious and irresistible world of cats, from the domesticated to the wild, and why we love them

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See all the action from this year's �鶹��ý Live

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Space

See the beauty of space, captured by the astronauts who experienced it

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Life

Stunning images highlight fight to save Earth’s rich biodiversity

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Life

Endearing photos of bats show clever adaptations like long tongues

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