Princeton's 2006 Art of Science Competition

I had to wait to post this so I wouldn't give away the last mystery item.

This year's Art of Science Competition has a lot of very nice images. And some very strange ones. This one is really freaky.

"The practices of science and art both involve the single-minded pursuit of those moments of discovery when what one perceives suddenly becomes more than the sum of its parts. Each piece in this exhibition is, in its own way, a record of such a moment. They range from the image that validates years of research, to the epiphany of beauty in the trash after a long day at the lab, to a painter's meditation on the meaning of biological life."