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02.17.2010 Astronauts add a new room with a glorious gazing window to the International Space Station.

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Visual Science: NASA Unveils Its New Rocket

The potential successor to the space shuttle gets ready to fly. 10.20.2009

Visual Science: Vulcan Awakes

10.13.2009

Visual Science: The Red Badge of Climate Change

Tracing the flow of a blood-red fluorescent dye may reveal the ultimate fate of the Greenland's ice. 05.18.2009

Visual Science: The Achilles Heel on Michelangelo's David: His Shin

3-D scanning shows where the statue is most stressed—and where it will probably fail. 04.23.2009

Visual Science: A Close Look at the Original Information Superhighway

A detailed microscope image shows the complicated structure of a fish's nervous system. 03.05.2009

Visual Science: A Glow Below

Fluorescent coral captured on film 02.28.2009

Visual Science: The Rocket That Could Save Astronauts' Lives

NASA's Orion space capsule features a new escape clause. 02.15.2009

Visual Science: A (Dormant) Volcano Is a Great Place to Look at the Sky

Hawaii's Mauna Kea houses the world’s largest astronomical observatory. 01.09.2009

Visual Science: The Remote-Controlled Helicopter That Predicts Volcanic Eruptions

Aerovolc 1 has a very sharp sense of smell—and not a shred of fear. 11.18.2008

Visual Science: The History of the World, Contained in a Block of Ice

Ice core samples reveal the atmosphere's secrets as far back as 400,000 years. 10.14.2008

Visual Science: The Daredevils Who Chase One of the Sky's Greatest Mysteries

Some brave pilots fly tiny gliders into an amazing type of cloud that forms only in Australia. 08.14.2008

Visual Science: What Does Alzheimer's Look Like in Your Brain?

A 3-D rendering of a peptide shows a clear marker of the disease. 07.04.2008

Visual Science: The Laser to End All Lasers

Scientists are completing the world's largest laser—but will it work? 06.25.2008