FAVORITE IMAGES OF THE WEEK - 17

DEWDROP INSECT

Ondrej Pakan's gorgeous macro shots of insects bedecked with dewdrops are just about the prettiest shots of what are basically just wet bugs we've ever seen. See more here.

Ondrej Pakan

ROBOT, MEET HUMAN

Robonaut 2 has been around for a few years now, but we never get tired of its exploits. And this picture shows the R2 reaching out to touch a human. NASA notes that it and GM are working on new robotic gloves to assist astronauts and other workers.

NASA

SPIDER GUITAR

This intricate arachnophilic guitar body looks...cool, I guess, if you're into stuff like that. But what's more impressive to us is that the whole body was made with a 3-D printer. Read more here.

Olaf Diegel

BALL OF BEES

Japanese honeybees have an insane defensive ploy: they swarm around the predator (like, say, a hornet) so aggressively that the heat from their bodies actually cooks the predator. Read more here.

Wikimedia Commons

THE TITANIC, 100 YEARS LATER

The April 2012 issue of National Geographic has a cover story with incredible photos of the sunken Titanic, a hundred years after the wreck. Only the newest imaging technology has made these pictures possible. See them over at Nat Geo.

Walden Media