These amazing advancements in science, medicine and technology show just how far humans have progressed in recent years.
 

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Cool things seen through an electron microscope.
 

This awesome giant swimming pool located in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASA is 202 feet (62m) long, 101 feet (31m) wide and 40 feet (12m) deep and is used to train men for spacewalks.

Alan Friedman works full time as a greeting card designer but pursues his love of astronomy in the evenings from an observatory he has erected in his own backyard in Buffalo, New York. These brilliant photos are captured using a small telescope and Hydrogen Alpha filter which acts as a lens and streams images in the same way as a webcam would. Each photo is made out of thousands of frames of images that are then combined and adjusted in color and tonality to create a final high res photograph.

FEI, a company that manufactures microscopes, regularly holds a macro photo contest in which entrants must submit pictures of things that cannot be seen without magnification. Here is a selection of a few of the entries into the competition for 2012.

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These microscope close-ups are almost too creepy for words.

In this technologically advanced era, scientists continue to create robots to perform different tasks.

No, these are not the photos from some space probe. French astronomer Thierry Legault has taken these pics with 356 mm catadioptric telescope and high sensitivity astrophotography camera.

These micrographs of ordinary food products combine science and fine art.

NASA scientists made a curious analysis of how surface temperatures were fluctuating compared to the average temperature data from the middle of the 20th century.

These amazing photographs from mighty telescopes and space probes show various curious objects of our Solar System.

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Curious Things About Dreams (11 pics)

Those of you who dream of space adventures and conquering other galaxies will probably be surprised to know how immensely big our own Solar system is. The infographic here will give you an approximate idea of its enormous scale.

Modern electron and complex optical microscopes let us see things with a magnification which seemed unbelievable just a few decades ago.

You'll probably be surprised by these cool facts about dreams.

Photographer Benoit Tessier visited the French company Sebbin laboratories that manufacture silicone gel breast implants. The company uses the method of digital simulation of sizes and shapes and the structure of “ideal breasts.”

The Norwegian island of Spitsbergen is known for its Svalbard Global Seed Vault, located about 810 miles (1,303 km) from the North Pole. This secure seedbank preserves various plant seeds, duplicates or “spare” copies of seeds from gene banks from around the world, in an underground cavern. If the seeds are lost in gene banks, the Seed Vault will provide insurance, and in case of large-scale crises it will provide a shelter for them.

NASA tested a new five-segment rocket engine in the Utah desert on September 8, 2011. According to an eyewitness, “The earth trembled. Hot air was started. The flames were so bright it was impossible to look at them”.

Imagine floating in space inside of your own space hotel and looking down on the Earth and all of those land dwellers.

These are Twitter photos from the space shuttle Atlantis. These incredible photos were taken by Astronaut Ron Garan during Atlantis’ last flight.

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These are transparent specimens of sea life. Iori Tomita is an artist and an undergrad who studies ichthyology. His work is the New World Transparent Specimens created through a lengthy process that uses dyes, enzymes, and preservatives. He is trying to show people the hidden side of natural beauty that they might miss normally.

Space shuttle Endeavour touched down on Earth and ended the 30-year-long Nasa’s program. These are photographs of its final landing.

This simple chart shows the process of studying foreign languages. It explains which languages are too difficult to master, how much time it requires to finish the studies and how many native speakers are in the world.

Learn more about US demographics with these eye-opening maps that break down population shifts and racial and political changes throughout the country. One thing is for certain, major population changes are happening in the US.

Hispanic concentration:

You aren’t the only one surprised that this gargantuan airplane can take flight. Someone has to have faith in 80s Ukrainian engineering, considering this aircraft was built in the 1980s at the Antonov Development Lab. Known as “Mria” or “a dream” this huge flying building can carry a Mack truck and holds up to 250 tons, which makes it the best flight to take for an epic party.

These stunning photos of International Space Station astronauts taking a leisurely spacewalk, from a variety of different missions including the latest one, will take your breath away. Replete with Earth’s bright blue sky as a backdrop, each photo gives a new meaning to floating in space. Several things are for sure, astronauts cannot be scared of heights and they have a great view from work.

Do you see its eyes looking directly at you? Well, these are not the eyes…

UPD: This is Shweeb and it may be the future transport used to move around the city. It is a bike monorail pedal-powered. Yes, as in you’ll have to peddle it. It is only a concept now but Google Inc. has already invested $1 million dollars in it believing this may be transport solution for the cities.