What is this beautiful palette of colors? This technicolor dreamscape is actually an image into the diversity of cells of a mouse eye. Captured by a neuroscientist at the Moran Eye Center in Utah, the image shows 70 types of cells ranging from muscles to retina. The unique process to capture this image is called computational molecular phenotyping (CMP) and made the best visual images of 2011 in Science magazine.

Physicist Alan Lightman talks about the Multiverse Theory in the latest issue of “Harper’s.” Ironically, this hypothesis (that leaves God out of the equation) also requires faith. As Lightman writes: “we must to believe in what we cannot prove.”