Princeton’s third Art of Science competition is online and the winners announced.  All of the images were coincidental to scientific research, not created as art.  If you’ve never considered the artistic merit of embryonic squid, here’s your chance.  Can you tell what the object is before reading the captions?

The sound of words may affect how food tastes – could there be a word that would make brussel sprouts taste better? Tetris turns 25 this week Ember – the cutest little military robot you ever did see The art of neutrino detectors The new baby anteater – you probably haven’t associated cute with anteaters [...]

Just by watching their above ground behavior you might not think ants would have such complex and regulated environments downstairs.  If it didn’t involve killing them, ant colony castings would probably catch on as the next art craze.  But there’s no reason for the non-scientists not to enjoy the aesthetic aspects of scientific research.  Watch [...]