1. This 6-million-year visual journey from ape to man:
2. This monarch butterfly getting ready to leave its chrysalis:
3. This fly-over of the dwarf planet Ceres:
4. This glorious mixture of milk, food coloring, and shampoo:
5. This map of winds over the United States:
6. This massive test of earthquake engineering:
7. This ominous volcanic eruption:
8. This microbe-on-microbe attack:
9. This view of a space shuttle launch:
10. These MRIs of a tomato (left) and an onion (right):
11. And this badass gladiator spider trapping its prey:
12. This zoom-in that really gives you a sense of scale:
13. Or this zoom-out that does the same:
14. This terrifying yet captivating above-ground atomic bomb test:
15. Or this equally terrifying and equally captivating underwater nuke test:
16. This first-hand view of Curiosity landing on Mars:
17. And finally, just for the hell of it, this slow-mo video of a man-made firenado:
