ScienceBlogs Channel Photos, Week of March 18-24

For your weekly viewing pleasure, here are the larger versions of this week's channel photos.

Several of the photos—those featured on the Life Science, Physical Science, Environment, Humanities & Social Science, and Technology channels—come from Felice Frankel and George M. Whitesides' new book, On the Surface of Things; you can read more about the inspiration behind these spectacular images in Page 3.14's interview with Felice Frankel here.

(Have a photo you'd like to send in? Email it to photos@scienceblogs.com, or assign the tag "sbhomepage" to one of your photos on Flickr. Note: be sure to assign your photo an "attribution only" or "share and share alike" Creative Commons license so that we can use it.)

First photo here, the rest below the fold.

Life Science. Wings of a Morpho butterfly. From Felice Frankel and George M. Whitesides' "On The Surface Of Things"

Physical Science. Prismatic soap bubble. From Felice Frankel and George M. Whitesides' "On The Surface Of Things"

Environment. Reflections of sunlight on water. From Felice Frankel and George M. Whitesides' "On The Surface Of Things"

Humanities & Social Science. Player piano roll. From Felice Frankel and George M. Whitesides' "On The Surface Of Things"

Education & Careers. From Flickr, by jmurawski

Politics. Immigrants at New York's Ellis Island. From Flickr, courtesy of Library of Congress via pingnews

Medicine & Health. From Flickr, bykeizie

Brain & Behavior. From Flickr, by lil'bear

Technology. Light reflecting from a polymer-containing gel. From Felice Frankel and George M. Whitesides' "On The Surface Of Things"