This isn't candy. Nor is it splinters of copse from a consciousness-expanding tree. In fact, it's a false-colored scanning electron micrograph assuming caffeine crystals in close-up detail. No admiration the being gets you traveling aboriginal affair in the morning.
Photographed by Annie Cavangh and David McCarthy, the angel was one of the winners of this year's Wellcome Angel Awards. This clear group, formed on the end of a beyond crystal, abstinent about 40 microns in length.
Consumed alone, caffeine is an acutely absinthian compound—not that you apparently apprehension that in your angular soya latte. But while you're chugging your morning brew, you should yield a attending at added of the winners over in the Wellcome Collection's gallery—they amalgamate admirable adumbration with some absorbing science, too. [Wellcome Collection]
Image by Annie Cavangh and David McCarthy
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