These come from a fantastic collection of lesser-seen Vietnam War photos that can be viewed here.

I can’t recall where these were referred onto from (came back from the weekend to find this buried amongst tabs and that I also have amnesia), so I’ve little context on this collection, apart from the fact that they’re all great.

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• Surreal images of the Deepwater Horizon disaster
• The winners from National Geographic’s Traveler Photo Contest
• Infographic: comparing 10 years of the internet
• Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram
• On the horizon: A male birth-control pill
• Science confirms: The only workday we like is Friday
• The Mpemba Effect: how hot water freezes faster than cold
• Amelia Earhart: 75 Years of Mystery — and Now an Answer?
• Scientists discover genetic key to Elephant Man’s disfigurement
• The lost towns of Russia
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• How to back up your Gmail, Facebook, and Twitter accounts and why you should
• Iceland’s hard stance on bankers is working out pretty well
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Also, the Sarychev Volcano Eruption viewed from the International Space Station…

NASA asked the public to vote on their favourite images from more than 120 images in the online ‘Earth as Art’ collection acquired by the Landsat programme over the last 40 years. The winner was this image, called Van Gogh from Space due to its similarity to Van Gogh’s painting Starry Night. In the satellite photo, acquired on 13 July 2005, massive congregations of greenish phytoplankton swirl in the dark water around Gotland, a Swedish island in the Baltic Sea.

More via The Telegraph picture gallery