Anyone who says science is boring has not seen images like these. Throughout 2013, there have been countless discoveries, phenomena, and moments of natural beauty that amazed and stunned us.

"Before we had modern science, we still wanted meaning ... century uncovered an entire universe at a tiny scale," Lightman ...

Science often pushes back the boundaries of the known world to explore new topics and make the invisible visible. In the process of this work, in addition to a purely scientific documentation of ...