Small is beautiful
"Save Our Earth, Let's Go Green" won first place for photography in the 2009 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, sponsored by the journal Science and the National Science Foundation. The annual contest highlights visuals that reveal the hidden meaning and intricate details of our world. This picture shows how tiny plastic fibers, each with a diameter of 250 nanometers, wrap themselves around a plastic ball when immersed in an evaporating liquid. The process provides a new way to control the self-assembly of polymer hairs. The image was produced with a scanning electron microscope and was digitally enhanced for color. Image courtesy of Sung Hoon Kang, Boaz Pokroy and Joanna Aizenberg, Harvard University.
Math meditation
"Kuen's Surface: A Meditation on Euclid, Lobachevsky and Quantum Field" is a highly symbolic work that suggests the history of the 2,000-year-old failed effort to prove that the Parallel Postulate follows from Euclid's other axioms. It also suggests how failure led to an important success: an equation that is of interest both in modern geometry and in quantum field theory. The work shared first place in the contest's illustration category. Image courtesy of Richard Palais and Luc Benard, University of California at Irvine.
Inside the brain
Scientific researchers know that the classic hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease are the presence of neurofibrillary tangles and beta-amyloid plaques in the brain. The question is, how did they get there? "Inside the Brain: Unraveling the Mystery of Alzheimer's Disease," which won an honorable mention in the non-interactive media category, is a series of detailed animations showing the protein processes and aggregations linked to the illness. The visualizations are based on the latest scientific discoveries, and are the result of extensive reviews of investigations conducted by top researchers in the field. Some of the specific cellular processes are featured for the first time in an educational video about Alzheimer's disease. Image courtesy of Stacy Jannis, William Dempsey, Rebekah Fredenburg, Marcelle Morrison-Bogorad, Creighton Phelps and Stephen Snyder, Jannis Productions.
"Save Our Earth, Let's Go Green" won first place for photography in the 2009 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, sponsored by the journal Science and the National Science Foundation. The annual contest highlights visuals that reveal the hidden meaning and intricate details of our world. This picture shows how tiny plastic fibers, each with a diameter of 250 nanometers, wrap themselves around a plastic ball when immersed in an evaporating liquid. The process provides a new way to control the self-assembly of polymer hairs. The image was produced with a scanning electron microscope and was digitally enhanced for color. Image courtesy of Sung Hoon Kang, Boaz Pokroy and Joanna Aizenberg, Harvard University.
Math meditation
"Kuen's Surface: A Meditation on Euclid, Lobachevsky and Quantum Field" is a highly symbolic work that suggests the history of the 2,000-year-old failed effort to prove that the Parallel Postulate follows from Euclid's other axioms. It also suggests how failure led to an important success: an equation that is of interest both in modern geometry and in quantum field theory. The work shared first place in the contest's illustration category. Image courtesy of Richard Palais and Luc Benard, University of California at Irvine.
Inside the brain
Scientific researchers know that the classic hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease are the presence of neurofibrillary tangles and beta-amyloid plaques in the brain. The question is, how did they get there? "Inside the Brain: Unraveling the Mystery of Alzheimer's Disease," which won an honorable mention in the non-interactive media category, is a series of detailed animations showing the protein processes and aggregations linked to the illness. The visualizations are based on the latest scientific discoveries, and are the result of extensive reviews of investigations conducted by top researchers in the field. Some of the specific cellular processes are featured for the first time in an educational video about Alzheimer's disease. Image courtesy of Stacy Jannis, William Dempsey, Rebekah Fredenburg, Marcelle Morrison-Bogorad, Creighton Phelps and Stephen Snyder, Jannis Productions.
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