No small matter

Below is an example of a great collaboration between photographer Felice Frankel and biochemist and essayist George Whitesides. The book No small matter captures the world below the level of the visible and introduces readers to the strange principles driving science on a nanoscale.

Two streams of water collide with remarkable results. At the top, under the influence of pressure and gravity, the streams squirt out into a flat sheet, while surface tension draws the fluid into strands and then globes as