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It's been almost 1,000 years since Arab scholar Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) began writing his Book of Optics, a groundbreaking treatise that led to the development of the microscope. Scientific American has a round-up of the winners of the 2009 Olympus...
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The last chance to win a huge illustrated encyclopaedia of science! And so we come to the end of our delightful foray into the thrill and passion for science of you, dear readers. It's been absolutely wonderful, and I've really...
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Another day, another beautifully-illustrated definitive guide to SCIENCE to be won! With the contest in its fourth day, I have only two more of these huge books to win. They're worth a princely £30 each, and were edited by the...
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Another chance to win a gorgeous illustrated encyclopaedia of science! Thank you everyone who donated their thoughts to yesterday's provoking question, the consensus seems to be that we are, right now, living in a bloody great time for science. The...
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Another day, another chance to win SCIENCE: THE DEFINITIVE VISUAL HISTORY! Well, it's going to be hard to beat the massive response to the first round of this competition - thank you to everyone who commented. It was heartening to...
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This week, five SciencePunk readers will win a copy of SCIENCE: THE DEFINITIVE VISUAL GUIDE, edited by Adam Hart-Davis! I received a copy in the post today, and let me tell you, this book is HUGE. Huge in scope, in...
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PDN Photo of the Day website says: Here we present ten of the finalists from Nikon's 35th Annual Small World Photomicrography Competition, which recognizes photographs shot through a microscope. Contest winners will be announced on October 8. Until October...
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From New Scientist: Iranian photographer Babak Tafreshi has won the 2009 Lennart Nilsson scientific photography prize. According to the award panel, his images "reclaim a night sky that most modern people have lost"...
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Thanks to Morbid Anatomy for this fantastic mashup: Ernest Haeckal's highly-celebrated engravings from Artforms of Nature turned into mutant beauty using a fractal generator. More images available from sub blue...
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Icon magazine presents The Termite Pavillion, a sculpture designed by wildlife recordist Chris Watson in collaboration with Softroom Architects, Freeform Engineering, Atelier One, and Haberdashery London. Based on a scan of a Namibian termite mound, It was created for Pestival,...
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