"Self Reflected" is described as "the world's most elaborate artistic depiction of the human brain, revealing insight into the complexity of consciousness by combining art and science to revolutionize the way in which we think about the brain." It fuses neuroscience data, hand drawings, algorithmic manipulation, optical engineering, photolithography and gilding to etch half a million neurons into large sheets of gold. The artists invented this technique, called reflective "microetching," to introduce visualizations of the brain never seen before.

Credit: Greg Dunn, Brian Edwards, Will Drinker

This poster illustrates the micro-pumping mechanism of hummingbird tongues recently discovered by Alejandro Rico and Margaret Rubega. The tongues of hummingbirds are transparent and tiny, making the structural changes within the tongue impossible to display through photos or video, but possible through illustration.

Credit: Esther Ng

An eight-week-old starfish larva churns the water around its body as it searches for algae, its primary food source. Normally, these vertical flow currents are invisible, but by adding small plastic beads to the water and then taking a long-exposure image, the photo allows viewers to perceive the striking complexity of the currents that the animal creates in its pursuit of food.

Credit: William Gilpin

ASL-LEX is a database of lexical and phonological properties that have been compiled for nearly 1,000 signs of American Sign Language.

Credit: Naomi Caselli, Zed Sevcikova Sehyr, Ariel Cohen-Goldberg, Ben Tanen and Karen Emmorey

"Planet Nine" presents an argument for a distant ninth planet in the solar system. The visualization illustrates the discoveries being made in the Kuiper Belt, the uncertainty about the location of this hypothetical planet and computer simulations of distant areas in the solar system.

Credit: Patrick McPike, Mark SubbaRao and Mike Brown