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The Best Science Photographs of 2005

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the worth-a-thousand dept.

Hogwash McFly writes "This year's Visions Of Science Photographic Awards have honored several amazing snapshots in the realm of science photography. Photographs were each judged in one of ten categories, and winning images range from a sinister cancer cell to the use of eggs to illustrate panspermia. The full list of winners and runners up is featured on the official website, and there are larger versions of the winners over at the Beeb and at National Geographic."

5 of 68 comments (clear)

  1. Nilsson? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    See also: The Lennart Nilsson Award

  2. Great... by evil+agent · · Score: 4, Funny

    From now on I'll have to check each pea I eat for pea weevils.

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  3. Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge by gourneau · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are a bunch of beautiful visualizations at this site http://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/vis2005/show/ssin tro.dtl

  4. Photographs? More like Photoshops by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    over and over again... "Coloured using Adobe Photoshop". "Science" and "Photoshop" do not go together. Does the public need even more reason to distrust science?

  5. Artificially colored by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Notice that most of the photos were artificially colored.

    The contest seems to be public relations advertising. It is supported by Novartis, a pharmaceutical company that perhaps should not be trusted completely: Kindness, or maximizing shareholder value?