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![pattern of annual rings in shrub stems](https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/styles/mobile_full_width/s3/2022-11/Zoom_Shrub_Rings.jpg?VersionId=y0g6l_.p8OuHM6yvV1XTyVFKvr0Ei7c.&itok=PpxayLVQ)
Credit: Image courtesy of Daniel Ackerman
![a jumping spider](https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/styles/mobile_full_width/s3/2022-10/Zoom_Spider.jpg?VersionId=Ny7GrU3zNx5q6BCTWGZUQBINYpzcDUy0&itok=EOffdYgs)
Credit: Photo/Bernard Dupont/Wikimedia Commons (licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 International)
![A caribou skull](https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/styles/mobile_full_width/s3/2023-04/Zoom_Tundra2l.jpg?VersionId=TzO8POA6eBm5qQSIu3w1eznRK3ak4BHE&itok=Y9ehcXq9)
Credit: Daniel Ackerman
![In this illustration, a sheet of paper shows sketches of one of these surfaces, called Kuen's surface, and the expression, called a soliton, which describes it.](https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/styles/mobile_full_width/s3/2022-08/Zoom_Kuen_surface.jpg?VersionId=G6UTy4QB5RE5v.C8AZesAJYubRo7ZjGF&itok=a8kPBRvX)
Credit: ©Luc Benard, University of California, Irvine
![crystals](https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/styles/mobile_full_width/s3/2023-06/Zoom_crystals.jpg?VersionId=IZNkFpgEgjR95Nnx134m018PePZ_gUqK&itok=tkyryB4i)
Credit: Jaya G. Yodh Ph.D., teaching assistant professor, medical education facilitator, Carle Illinois College of Medicine; research assistant professor, Department of Physics, NSF Center for the Physics of Living Cells, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Credit: Frances Allen, Rachel Thayer and Nipam Patel, Biomolecular Nanotechnology Center/qb3, UC Berkeley
![The Blanco Telescope dome at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, where the Dark Energy Camera used for the recently completed Dark Energy Survey was housed.](https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/styles/mobile_full_width/s3/2022-08/Zoom_Cerro_Tololo_1.jpg?VersionId=Sd5mEu8cPHg3Gxl3v977oZdxh7r6f3Wb&itok=fStROPgN)
Credit: Reidar Hahn, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
![Dramatic image of arctic ice in the middle of arctic ocean with beautiful sky in the background.](https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/styles/mobile_full_width/s3/2023-06/Zoom_Canada%20Basin.jpg?VersionId=928boWGBfaw55doX8e4gjHh6vajhrs44&itok=WJnaeAm1)
Credit: Zhangxian Ouyang, University of Delaware
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