This is a “visual” extension of Joerg Heber’s blog “All that matters” at http://blog.joerg.heber.name My aim for this tumblr stream is to bring you striking photos related to scientific topics. I am a Senior Editor of the science magazine Nature Materials, blogger and freelance science writer. Views are my own.Tumblr (3.0; @joergheber)http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly9rr7GUNt1qbz9meo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://life.tumblr.com/post/16436881925/look-carefully-you-can-just-make-out-air-force">life</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Look carefully: </strong>You can just make out Air Force Colonel Joseph Kittinger, Jr. in a record-shattering free fall from the very edge of space on August 16, 1960, after jumping from a balloon-supported gondola 102,800 feet above New Mexico.</p> <p>During his descent, Kittinger reached approximate speeds of <strong><em>614 miles an hour. </em></strong>The clouds beneath him are 15 miles away. Kittinger’s leap was part of the Air Force’s “Project Excelsior,” which conducted research into high altitude bailouts from aircraft. Incredibly, almost 50 years later, Kittinger’s record for the longest-ever free fall and highest parachute jump still stand.</p> <p>(<em>see more </em>— <a href="http://www.life.com/gallery/30222/21-greatest-ever-space-photos?iid=home%7Ceditorspicks#index/0"><strong>21 Greatest-Ever Space Photos</strong></a>)</p> </blockquote>http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/16439239460http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/16439239460Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:38:43 +0000<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lubonwrGj51qd20jno1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://blog.joerg.heber.name/2011/11/07/the-two-sides-of-promoting-materials-science/">The two sides of promoting materials science</a></p>http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/12498960283http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/12498960283Tue, 08 Nov 2011 07:35:57 +0000<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltlejnrmaS1qd20jno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://blog.joerg.heber.name/2011/10/24/too-much-travelling-in-science/">Too much travelling in science</a></p>http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/11882074072http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/11882074072Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:59:48 +0100<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lta0hhoCJm1qd20jno1_400.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://blog.joerg.heber.name/2011/10/18/through-the-tangled-web/">Through the tangled web</a></p>http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/11620172548http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/11620172548Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:22:30 +0100<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loo156y4td1qd20jno1_100.gif"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://blog.joerg.heber.name/2011/07/20/science-in-the-age-of-austerity-an-example/">“Science in the age of austerity” – an example</a></p>http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/7872922778http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/7872922778Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:15:06 +0100<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln3fyajqzt1qi5x54o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://diamondlightsource.tumblr.com/post/6723322037">diamondlightsource</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>20 June 2011: The lighting system on Diamond’s <a href="http://www.diamond.ac.uk/Home/Beamlines/I22.html">Non-crystalline diffraction beamline</a> (I22) is under commissioning whilst the Diamond synchrotron is in a scheduled shutdown period. Final checks are made before I22 is ready to “take beam” and the X-rays enter the optics hutch.</p> </blockquote>http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/6723330811http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/6723330811Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:52:16 +0100<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkh0on66fP1qd20jno1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://blog.joerg.heber.name/2011/04/29/semiconductor-optical-switches-reach-the-speed-of-light/">Semiconductor optical switches reach the speed of light</a></p>http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/5070729756http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/5070729756Sat, 30 Apr 2011 20:07:36 +0100<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk99grgq0p1qi5x54o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://diamondlightsource.tumblr.com/post/4953521774">diamondlightsource</a>:</p> <p>26 April 2011: A microcrystalline powder sample of a previously unknown phase of organic cage sits in a 1 mm diameter capillary, ready to be placed in the beam on Beamline I11. The crystallites are approximately 1 micron in size. Photo taken by Sam Chong.</p>http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/4953528120http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/4953528120Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:37:00 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk78r0pfr81qd20jno1_250.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://blog.joerg.heber.name/2011/04/23/should-past-cancer-prevent-you-from-office/">Should past cancer prevent you from office?</a></p>http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/4922322050http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/4922322050Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:25:48 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljuqmasKCe1qbz9meo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://life.tumblr.com/post/4718755825">life</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.life.com/gallery/41842/exclusive-the-day-einstein-died#index/0"><strong>EXCLUSIVE: The Day Einstein Died</strong></a></p> <p>Albert Einstein, whose theories exploded and reshaped our ideas of how the universe works, died 56 years ago, on April 18, 1955, of heart failure. He was 76. His funeral and cremation were intensely private affairs, and only one photographer managed to capture the events of that extraordinary day: LIFE magazine’s Ralph Morse. Armed with his camera and a case of scotch — to open doors and loosen tongues — Morse compiled a quietly intense record of an icon’s passing. But aside from one now-famous image (above), the pictures Morse took that day were never published. At the request of Einstein’s son, who asked that the family’s privacy be respected while they mourned, LIFE decided not to run the full story, and for more than five decades Morse’s photographs lay unseen and forgotten.</p> </blockquote>http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/4747940676http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/4747940676Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:00:15 +0100<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lju4n9mYSX1qd20jno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://blog.joerg.heber.name/2011/04/17/gravity-weighs-in-on-spectroscopy/">Gravity weighs in on spectroscopy</a></p>http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/4712873997http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/4712873997Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:28:22 +0100<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljc2q0SVdX1qd20jno1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://blog.joerg.heber.name/2011/04/08/100-years-of-superconductivity/">100 years of superconductivity</a></p>http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/4439662030http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/4439662030Fri, 08 Apr 2011 17:30:00 +0100<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_liwruqczo61qd20jno1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://blog.joerg.heber.name/2011/03/30/magnetisms-new-hotness/">Magnetism’s new hotness</a></p>http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/4228620518http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/4228620518Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:11:15 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lik6e50UZm1qd20jno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>A chip containing tiny mechanical resonators. If cooled down, the resonators are shown to be in a quantum-mechanical ground state, which opens the door for quantum control of mechanical systems!</span></p> <p><span>Photo by Erik Lucero. Paper published in <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7289/full/nature08967.html">Nature</a>, April 2010. </span></p>http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/4061878479http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/4061878479Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:56:25 +0000<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li1iipYzP91qd20jno1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://blog.joerg.heber.name/2011/03/14/sendai/">Sendai</a></p>http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/3852144504http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/3852144504Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:04:02 +0000<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhk0jeiVL81qd20jno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://blog.joerg.heber.name/2011/03/04/synthesizers-for-light/">Synthesizers for light waves</a></p>http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/3644068566http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/3644068566Sat, 05 Mar 2011 02:16:28 +0000<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgu65qgKCR1qd20jno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://blog.joerg.heber.name/2011/02/18/the-anti-laser/">The ‘anti-laser’</a></p>http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/3370116014http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/3370116014Sat, 19 Feb 2011 03:20:15 +0000<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgqfhoLjLo1qd20jno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://blog.joerg.heber.name/2011/02/16/light-bending-to-the-extreme/">Light bending to the extreme</a></p>http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/3333461924http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/3333461924Thu, 17 Feb 2011 02:51:27 +0000<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lggqijhqVI1qd20jno1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://blog.joerg.heber.name/2011/02/11/stewardship-of-scientific-data/">Stewardship of scientific data</a></p>http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/3235607627http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/3235607627Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:13:32 +0000“One of the attractions about using clones is that it makes people ask immediately, What does it mean to be a human being?”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://tpr.ly/adXMqN">Kazuo Ishiguro</a> (via <a href="http://theparisreview.tumblr.com/" class="tumblr_blog">theparisreview</a>)</em>http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/3108334517http://tumblr.joerg.heber.name/post/3108334517Fri, 04 Feb 2011 19:31:48 +0000