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Faceting ionic shells into icosahedra via electrostatic (Image 2)

Earthquakes can open and shut thrust faults

Granulation patterns on the surface of a star

Normal epithelial cells primed on a stiff matrix

Baby snowshoe hare

Gall-inducing fly on goldenrod (Image 2)

Launching a radiosonde at Summit Station

NSF Director with Illinois Congressional Delegation on Capitol Hill

No-lens FlatCam (Image 1)

No-lens FlatCam (Image 2)

No-lens FlatCam (Image 3)

Californian mussels (Mytilus californianus)

Race across tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare (Image 1)

Race across tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare (Image 2)

Race across tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare (Image 3)

Race across tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare (Image 4)

Race across tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare (Image 5)

Fossils and geologic data recovered from Antarctica (Image 3)

Antarctic Peninsula Paleontology Project

Blanco 4 meter telescope with Milky Way

JILA's 3-D quantum gas atomic clock

Zooplankton Daphnia pulex (Image 1)

Zooplankton Daphnia pulex (Image 2)

2-D granular system

American house dust mite (Dermatophagoides farina) (Image 1)

American house dust mite (Dermatophagoides farina) (Image 2)

NSF Director inducted into U.S. News' STEM Leadership Hall of Fame

Fossils and geologic data recovered from Antarctica (Image 1)

Fossils and geologic data recovered from Antarctica (Image 2)

First-of-its-kind chemical oscillator