Another year, another round of close-up photos of scientists holding small things in their rubber-gloved fingers. Nothing says science like a tiny piece of magic held by disembodied, rubber-gloved fingers, shoved right in front of the camera. Behold the fruits of human exploration:
Above image: Photostimulable polymer meta-surface - Jens Meyer University of Jena - Feb 2024
Airy cellulose from a 3D printer - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology - Apr 2024
Healable cathode material - David Baillot at UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering - Mar 2024
Precious metals extracted from discarded electronics - Fred Zwicky at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - Mar 2024
Synthetic mucus - Jessica Kramer for University of Utah - Mar 2024
2D semiconductor material by Xiangfeng Duan - UCLA Dehui Zhang - Apr 2024
A bag of extracted contaminants from an old pizza box - Idaho National Laboratory - Apr 2024
Prototype finger with rigid bones and flexible flesh - Adrian Alberola - Apr 2024
Zinc-lignin battery - Thor Balkhed Linköping University - May 2024
A bead of space glass, glass made in space - Phoenix Pleasant ORNL, USDOE - 2024
Smart bioelectronic bandage - Wei Gao California Institute of Technology - Jun 2024
