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Any monkey can run an equation through a graphing calculator, call it "Icosahedron 12" and sell a "giclee image" for $300 to a gullible sophomore. But it takes actual smarts (or a serious bronze foundry) to make cool "science art." More »
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Here's a microscopy image of a fibroblast, stained with a few different antibodies. The green is microtubuli, the red is cell-contacts and the blue is DNA. It's just one of Jan Schmoranzer's amazing nano-art images. More »
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This image of "Nano-Explosions" won first prize in this year's "Science As Art" competition. Fanny Beron from the École Polytechnique de Montréal used an electron scanning micrograph to record the explosion that happened when a CoFeB magnetic array was overloaded. The chaotic blasts are a "reminder that nanoscale research can have unpredicted consequences at a high level." Beron has also been a star soccer goalie. [NanoWerk] More »
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