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Nuclear fusion reactors, particle colliders, and other big-science rely on giant magnetic fields. But nature's most powerful magnets blow even our best efforts away.

Researchers at Livermore National Lab expect to be producing energy with a controlled, self-sustaining fusion reaction within three years.

The images from the latest Science as Art competition all show familiar objects, but they're made out of amazing, almost alien materials—and they're insanely small.