Best Science Images of 2007

A striking image of seaweed shows the complexity of even the simplest organisms.

It may look like a strange insect , but this is actually a CT image revealing the delicate structures underlying the human nose.

Metal with the consistency of ribbon garnered engineering graduate student Adam Siegel and chemist George M. Whitesides of Harvard University an honorable mention in the photography category of the 2007 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.

A still image from a 3-D animation shows how nicotine stimulates nerve impulses to the pleasure center of the brain.

Understanding even basic geometrical transformations can be difficult—unless you get a little perspective. This still image comes from "Mobius Transformations Revealed," a short film by Douglas N. Arnold and Jonathan Rogness of the University of Minnesota that shows how some mathematics can become simpler in higher dimensions.

more about these images at National Geographic