November 10, 2007

Glowing Brains, Adobe X-rays, & more

Droppin’ some Saturday science:

• We come in colors: “Brainbow” uses fluroescent proteins to let scientists see the individual neurons within mouse brains. [Via]
• X to the Ray:
  • Nick Veasey makes nifty X-Ray photography [Via].  I thought his feather scans looked familiar, and sure enough, he’s the guy behind the Creative Suite 2 artwork.
  • SFMOMA used X-rays to uncover a hidden Picasso buried beneath another artist’s work.
  • Elsewhere I stumbled upon a collection of 15 weird X-rays.  The nailgun victims remind me of work done by a props master I met on the set of CSI a couple years back.  He’d carved out a niche creating realistic depictions of trauma, going from raw materials to on-set print in just a few minutes.
• Photoshop-for-technical-imaging expert George Reis has released Photoshop CS3 for Forensics Professionals: A Complete Digital Imaging Course for Investigators.  PhotoshopSupport.com has the details, plus a link to a sample chapter (PDF).
• Evidently birds see magnetic fields. [Via]  (File next to squirrels with infrared-emitting tails.)
• And you thought your inkjet was precise: IBM prints with molecules. (Please, guys: draw angels on the head of a pin…)
• Morbid Anatomy blogs about the intersections of “art and medicine, death and culture.” They cover, among other things, a recent “Anatomy as Art” auction at Christie’s.
• Elsewhere in news of medical curiosities, check out this hard-shelled pushmi-pullyu.[Via]
• ScienceFaction offers scient-oriented stock imagery, while Fahad Sulehria “studies the science of art and the art of science” with his scientific illustrations.