NPR: Recently, the New York Times online featured stunning images of atomic bomb explosions, some taken in the 1950s and 1960s by Harold Edgerton, a professor at MIT who developed the rapatronic camera specifically for that purpose. Capturing the explosions was exceptionally challenging, partly because of the extraordinary light intensity and the ultrashort duration. Edgerton, who specialized in stop-motion photography, earned the reputation of being “the man who made time stand still.” While his images reveal what the human eye cannot see, they also achieve a certain visual aesthetic.
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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