23 Hilarious, Weird, And Funny Science Photos From Fermilab

23 Hilarious, Weird, And Funny Science Photos From Fermilab

When I put together this post showing some awesome science photos, I expected to be amazed, but not to find myself becoming extremely cheerful. However, in the middle of digging for cool research image material, I went deep into Fermilab’s Visual Media Services Photo Database and found a lot of visual treasure.

Picture: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab

Fermilab has more than 4000 stock science photos, mostly captured for journalistic illustrations — and a few of them are funny as hell. Here is a selection of their best.


Einstein learns that neutrinos faster than light

23 Hilarious, Weird, And Funny Science Photos From Fermilab

Picture: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab


Astronomical toilet paper

23 Hilarious, Weird, And Funny Science Photos From Fermilab

Picture: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab


Scientist Mandy Rominsky

23 Hilarious, Weird, And Funny Science Photos From Fermilab

Picture: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab


Cardboard H Higgs

23 Hilarious, Weird, And Funny Science Photos From Fermilab

Picture: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab


BaBar hunts for Dark Matter

23 Hilarious, Weird, And Funny Science Photos From Fermilab

Picture: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab


Decimal time (deci-time) clock

23 Hilarious, Weird, And Funny Science Photos From Fermilab

Picture: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab


Jellybean pie chart showing composition of the Universe

23 Hilarious, Weird, And Funny Science Photos From Fermilab

Picture: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab


Water wave

23 Hilarious, Weird, And Funny Science Photos From Fermilab

Picture: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab


Andrew Sonnenschein at the MINOS Underground Hall for data

23 Hilarious, Weird, And Funny Science Photos From Fermilab

Picture: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab


Cans of data on shelves for data storage

23 Hilarious, Weird, And Funny Science Photos From Fermilab

Picture: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab


This happens all the time

23 Hilarious, Weird, And Funny Science Photos From Fermilab

Picture: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab


Styrofoam cups with bite marks

23 Hilarious, Weird, And Funny Science Photos From Fermilab

Picture: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab


Selda Esen and a CMS Starter Kit

23 Hilarious, Weird, And Funny Science Photos From Fermilab

Picture: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab


Physics in TV and Film

23 Hilarious, Weird, And Funny Science Photos From Fermilab

Picture: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab


Physics in TV and Film

23 Hilarious, Weird, And Funny Science Photos From Fermilab

Picture: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab


String Theory written in string

23 Hilarious, Weird, And Funny Science Photos From Fermilab

Picture: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab


Universal Accord recipe

23 Hilarious, Weird, And Funny Science Photos From Fermilab

Picture: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab


“Dark Matter” written in Braille

23 Hilarious, Weird, And Funny Science Photos From Fermilab

Picture: Fred Ullrich/Fermilab


Foreign currencies in ziplock bags

23 Hilarious, Weird, And Funny Science Photos From Fermilab

Picture: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab


Jelly Bean Universe – representing the percentages of Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Normal Atomic Matter

23 Hilarious, Weird, And Funny Science Photos From Fermilab

Picture: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab


Bottle of wine won by Michael Witherell for solving a mathematical equation

23 Hilarious, Weird, And Funny Science Photos From Fermilab

Picture: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab


Ice Cream and Accelerating Cavity

23 Hilarious, Weird, And Funny Science Photos From Fermilab

Picture: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab


Wilson Hall night time reflection with Sloan star field image and CDF Top Quark image

23 Hilarious, Weird, And Funny Science Photos From Fermilab

Picture: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab


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