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The International Scanning Probe Microscopy Image Contest 2009, featuring our beautiful world at a microscopic level, has just announced the winners of the competition. The submissions from around the world demonstrate how widespread the field of nanotechnology is, and the progress this field has achieved in only a few years.
Here are the five winners and their works above (left to right, top to bottom):

First Prize: Li Ang, National University of Singapore (Singapore)

Second Prize: Sander Otte, NIST-Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (United States)

Third Prize: Sviatlana Abetkovskaia, A.V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute (Belarus)

Fourth Prize: Francesco Mantegazza, Universita’ degli studi di Milano-Bicocca (Italy)

Fifth Prize: Mar Cardellach Redon, Centre d’Investigació en Nanociencia i Nanotecnologia (Spain)

Link: Gallery of submissions to the SPMAGE09 contest…
(hat tip: Nanowerk)

Eshel Ben Jacob, a professor of physics at Tel Aviv University, beautified photos of bacteria growing in Petri dishes with a bit of color and shading to create an amazing collection you can browse yourself.
Here’s what the artist/scientist tells Medgadget about the works:

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In a beautiful gesture to the fact that music can stimulate the body unlike anything else, the advertising design agency Euro RSCG, Zürich, Switzerland has created this ad campaign for Zürich Chamber Orchestra

(hat tip: Fubiz via Zayats)

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Sony has produced what can only be described as a frighteningly awesome “mechanical heart” built for ads that will be aired during England’s World Cup qualifying campaign. The heart was created by the special effects group Artem and is built from Sony TVs, DVD players, cameras, and even Walkmans. It looks like Sony has rediscovered that “fear factor” that has been missing from our latest medical devices.

(From Electric Pig via Engadget)

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Human neural stem cells stained for DNA (blue) and neuronal (TUJ-1, green) and astrocyte (GFAP, red) markers.
GE Healthcare is running a new photo competition that is meant to show off images created on the company’s IN Cell Analyzer, a system for visualizing and analyzing cellular processes.

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Bill Harbaugh, an economics professor at the University of Oregon who focuses on neuroeconomics, or using neuroscience techniques like fMRI to examine people’s economic decisions, has curated a small art exhibit he calls “Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art”.
From the Museum:

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Olympus has announced this year’s winners of the BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition, a contest of the finest photographs from recent research in the life sciences. Shown above is the overall winner, but do browse through the entire winner’s gallery for all the amazing works.

A luminous golden ‘fairy fly’ that seems to defy gravity as it hovers with feathered wings against a dark background took top prize in the 2008 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®, the world’s foremost forum for showcasing microscope photos and videos of life science subjects. Mr. M. I. “Spike” Walker of Staffordshire, England, took top honors for the shimmering image of what is called a fairy fly, actually a tiny wasp that may be the world’s smallest insect at only 0.21mm long, or 1/25 the length of the average red ant. The eerily glowing wasp, captured in exquisite detail, reveals the extraordinary delicacy, balance, beauty, and numerous colors in the diminutive creature.

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The National Library of Medicine is hosting an exhibition of 20th century public health posters collected from all over the world.
On the right is a U.S. poster from the 1940′s, and it ain’t about the dangers of tobacco.

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