Science & engineering
Phenomenal Moments: Revealing the Hidden Science Around Us
By Felice Frankel, research scientist in the Department of Chemical Engineering
Candlewick Press · 2025
Enlisting readers to "be the scientist" through vivid fine-art photographs, science photographer Felice Frankel zooms in and out on beautiful and brilliant moments all around us to reveal the chemical, natural, or physical processes, from viscosity and venation to chlorophyll and capillary action, behind scientific phenomena.
From Summer 2026 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News). Cover image via Google Books.
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