Scientific Images PLUS....: August 2009

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Visualization REVEALS ALL ...

ART + SCIENCE = AMAZING IMAGES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE AWARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The vanguard of science has always been populated with young visionaries, those individuals who are motivated by impossibility and undaunted by failure, who operate and lead in a world in which cross-pollination and the synthesis of ideas are the norm.

Blue Dot!

In 2007, an HD camera aboard Japan's Kaguya satellite videotaped earth 'rising' and 'setting।' Set to music by Peter Rundquist, the images bring home the lonely, extraordinary nature of this "pale blue dot.

Rosalind Franklin, was the scientist who made the first clear X-ray images of the structure of DNA.

Artists Wyllie O Hagan discovered Franklin's work on DNA whilst working in an Artist Residency in a Cancer Research UK laboratory in London

Susan Bookheimer, Ph.D., UCLA this film provides us with an understanding of the methodology and power of current research in neuroscience।

Steve Spangler discovers the microwave oven is not just for warming leftovers। Grab a bar of fresh Ivory soap and gather your friends around the microwave oven. Sure, you could do it at your home, but save this great trick for the break room or the staff cafeteria. In under two minutes, you'll have the best soap soufflé you've ever seen.

A team of MIT researchers has built a school of swimming robo-fish designed to more easily maneuver into areas where traditional underwater autonomous vehicles can't go।