By Ted Kinsman

For many years, I have photographed perfect snowflakes. I do not live in the best location to photograph snowflakes, since I live near Lake Ontario in New York. Our most common (98% of the time) snow is lake effect. The lake effect snow is a jumble of little fast forming crystals and is as far from photogenic as snow crystals can get.
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By Ted Kinsman

While working on the rattlesnake fang project I mentioned to a friend about the snake heads in the freezer. He offered me a full snake! It turns out that if you own a home in the hills outside of Santa Barbara in California you often keep rat traps to help keep the rats out of your house.
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This "unconference" was was unbelievably cool. Scientists really do get a bad rap for being geeky, and one could understandably fear that a meeting of science online groupies might wind up being a gathering of socially inept researchers who have an odd twitch, resemble Frankenstein a bit, and blog from dark corners of their labs because no one will talk to them at a bar. Not so!
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Nothing can rise above the excitement in Washington this week over the launching of a new era in American history and hopefully, in American science and technology.
So observe, enjoy, celebrate and anticipate the changes that await us because the hard work starts one second after the partying is over.
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By Sam Flatow
Medicine is an interesting field. In fact, it seems to be the only field which stays stagnant no matter what scientific advances have been made, and it seems that the exorcism is back.

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By Sheril Kirshenbaum and Chris Mooney
Solar power uses radiant energy from the sun for heating water, air, and making electricity. It's certainly not a bad idea in terms of renewable solutions to our energy crisis given the source isn't burning out anytime soon, but of course, this technology isn't right for everyone. On the local scale, it depends a good deal on location, time of day and year, and weather conditions. In other words, outfitting your home with solar panels may be a good idea in California ...

The New Year has started with a not insignificant victory for environmental groups and anyone concerned about public health. On January 7th, an appeals court in Cincinnati, Ohio, ruled that the Bush administration could no longer exempt pesticides from the federal permit requirements for pollutants. This should mean that pesticides can no longer be indiscriminately dumped in the nation’s water supplies to the detriment of the ecosystem, and also fish, wildlife and human health.
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By Ted Kinsman

This is one of my favorite images and like most science images it has a story behind it. This image was taken during an assignment for a British science magazine. The magazine requested a young girl popping a balloon and needed to show the human reflex of closing your eyes near a loud noise. I used my then 7 year old daughter for the shoot. After it was over my assistant Roger was playing around with over-inflating a balloon until it burst. ...

By Ted Kinsman

Some science images are easy, and some are very complex. This is a scanning electron microscope image of a Monarch Butterfly egg case is a very difficult picture. Just the sample preparation of this image took over a week. For years I have collected butterfly eggs, usually for my young kids. We will have a bottle with several eggs that hatch into microscopic worms that feed on milkweed leaves. In this case my kids and I went for several hikes in the finger ...

Last week, I asked our friends on Twitter if they would be interested in science photography and my inbox immediately overflowed with requests. I knew I had to come up with something good to post, so I cold-called Ted Kinsman. You have probably seen his work on Crime Scene Investigations (CSI), The X-Files, The Discovery Channel, South Park, The Tyra Banks Show, ABC, NBC, PBS, CBS, BBC, National Geographic, or the 1000 television commercials that have used his images. And now, you will be able to follow his work on ...