Imaging Science

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Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge: Challenge Synopsis:

Some of science’s most powerful statements are not made in words. From the diagrams of DaVinci to Hooke’s microscopic bestiary, the beaks of Darwin’s finches, Rosalind Franklin’s x-rays or the latest photographic marvels retrieved from the remotest galactic outback, visualization of research has a long and literally illustrious history. To illustrate is, etymologically and actually, to enlighten.

..from the National Science Foundation’s Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge. 

Each year, the National Science Foundation and the journal Science hold a contest that celebrates the grand tradition of scientific illustration.  The categories are

• photographs,
• illustrations,
• informational graphics,
• interactive media, and
• non-interactive media.

Click here to view this year’s winners.