
Watch Paint Dry
Watching paint dry is boring at a macroscopic level, but it’s actually really interesting at a microscopic level!

Watching paint dry is boring at a macroscopic level, but it’s actually really interesting at a microscopic level!

It can be challenging to deliver an impactful presentation in 5 minutes, but it’s a skill worth refining.

To interpret the world through vision, human eyes have four photoreceptors, birds have six, mantis shrimps have 16.

Tardigrades (aka ‘water bears’), are eight-legged segmented micro-animals that grow up to 0.5mm long. Watch how they walk.


Give yourself a few moments to chill out with a deep-sea octopus

Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations.

Lose yourself in wonder with Nature’s best science images for March 2021.
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