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Best Science Pictures and Visualizations of 2010

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Today the journal Science and the National Science Foundation announced the honorees for the 2010 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. Judges select winners from four categories: Photography, Illustrations, Informational Posters/Graphics and Non-Interactive Media. The NSF treats the contest as a way of engaging the public in scientific research. “How many people would have heard of fractal geometry or the double helix or solar flares if they had been described solely in words? In a world where science literacy is dismayingly rare, illustrations provide the most immediate and influential connection between scientists and other citizens, and the best hope for nurturing popular interest,” the foundation states. “Indeed, they are now a necessity for public understanding of research developments.”

Click on a category to check out the winners:

Photography

Rough Waters – First place

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Seth B. Darling and Steven J. Sibener; Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago

 

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Trichomes (hairs) on the Seed of the Common Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) – Honorable mention

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Robert Rock Belliveau

 

Centipede Millirobot – Honorable mention

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Katie L. Hoffman, Robert J. Wood and Harvard University

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Illustrations

Human Immunodeficiency Virus, 3D model – First place

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Ivan Konstantinov, Yury Stefanov, Aleksander Kovalevsky, Yegor Voronin / Visual Science Company

 

Proposed Structure of Yeast Mitotic Spindle – Honorable mention

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The Mitotic Spindle Group / University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

 

Enterobacteria Phage T4 – Honorable mention

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Jonathan Heras Equinox Graphics Ltd.

AraNet: A Genome-wide Gene Function Association Network for Arabidopsis thaliana – Honorable mention


Insuk Lee, Michael Ahn Edward Marcotte, Seung Yon Rhee Carnegie Institution for Science

Other categories:

Informational Graphics

Introduction to Fungi – First place

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Kandis Elliot, Mo Fayyaz University of Wisconsin, Madison

 

Everyone Ever in the World – Honorable mention

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Peter Crnokrak; The Luxury of Protest

Other categories:

Non-Interactive Media

Trash | Track – First place

Dietmar Offenhuber, E. Roon Kang, Carnaven Chiu, Armin Linke, Assaf Biderman, Carlo Ratti; Senseable city lab / MIT, supported by Waste Management, Qualcomm, Sprint, and the Architectural League NY

Visualization of the Whole Brain Catalog – Honorable mention

Drew Berry, Mark Ellisman, François Tétaz; The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

A Binary Quasar Caught in the Act of Merging – Honorable mention

Thomas J. Cox; Observatories of the Carnegie Institution

GlyphSea – Honorable mention

Amit Chourasia, Emmett Mcquinn, Bernard Minster, Jurgen Schulze; San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD

Everyday Einstein: GPS and Relativity – Honorable mention

Damian Pope, Greg Dick, Sean Bradley, Dave Fish, Roberta Tevlin, Steve Kelly, and Tim Langford; Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

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For more information on the 2010 Visualization Challenge check out this week’s issue of Science.

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