It's possible that working on our Future Issue is twisting my outlook on life, but I find these "nanoscapes" by University of Georgia professor Michael Oliveri fascinating. The series, which is called Innerspace, takes theoretical lab samples (nano structures, i.e., tiny!) and blows them up big until they look like sci-fi landscapes...and what you're actually seeing below, well, it's complicated. Read more about it here. Oliveri is the Ansel Adams of science, so no wonder he's also the founder and chair of UGA's "Art X: Expanded Forms" program.

Fractal Geometric Valley.

"Undescribable Gallium oxide and silicon oxide structures."

"The balls in this picture are germanium and the wires are zinc oxide. They were fabricated inside a tube furnace system at temperature of 900–1000 Celsius degree."

"The balls in this picture are zinc oxide fabricated inside a tube furnace system."