ALT Science, but make it art.\n\nEvery year, the College of Natural Sciences invites faculty, staff and students to send in the most striking and fascinating images from their research for the college-wide Visualizing Science competition.

ALT Choanoflagellates are the closest relatives of animals, and these microscopic organisms (each cell is only 5 microns!) help illuminate how we first established symbiotic interactions \nwith bacteria.

ALT A one-second exposure of the Air-Breathing Deflagration Thruster operating in vacuum shows a bright, collimated plasma jet. Electric current flows through the plasma and interacts with its own magnetic field, generating Lorentz forces that accelerate the plasma outward and simultaneously pinch it inward.

ALT What starts here changes the world.

ALT A blue bonnet plant inside the UT Tower's herbarium.

ALT A sample collected by Charles Darwin inside the UT Tower's herbarium.

ALT A indian painbrush sample inside the UT Tower's herbarium.

ALT A prairie verband sample inside the UT Tower's herbarium.

ALT Athena's second owlet in hand after being rescued from the nest.

ALT A mosquito rests on the fabric of a scientist's shirt. Photo credit:

ALT The Arctic sky is thick with flying mosquitoes. Photo credit: Jesse Krause.

ALT The pant leg of a scientist is covered in mosquitoes. Photo credit: Jesse Krause.

ALT Mosquitoes land on the face of a stoic-looking bird. Photo credit: Jeff Kerby.