“科学最震撼人心的力量往往不是语言能够表达的”很多科学家坚信这一点。为此，美国国家自然科学基金会与科学杂志创办了国际科学与工程视觉挑战大赛。大赛分为5个单元，包括照片、插图、海报、互动游戏和非互动媒体（电视、纪录片等）。科学杂志和科学在线将会专门介绍获胜作品，美国国家科学基金会也会在网页上介绍获奖作品。非常遗憾的是，从2003年至2010年的获奖作品中，我们没有看到中国科研机构的名字，这或许从某种程度上反映出我国科技水平与国际先进水平的差距，特别是中国科技工作者的科普意识与审美情趣，可能同西方发达国家的科学家相比还有一定差距。这里,我们选登了2010年部分照片、插图和海报类获奖作品，供大家欣赏。
水波荡漾
虽然照片看起来像是海洋表面，但实际上这是由美国阿贡国家实验室的史蒂文·希班纳和芝加哥大学的塞斯·达林合作，通过原子力显微镜拍摄的单层分子表面照片，只有一个纳米薄厚。美丽的蓝色是人工上色的，但海洋般的波浪是真实的。“波浪”是黄金表面成千上万的分子“自我安排”的结果“分子自组装技术”是近年来材料科学研究的热点之一。
真菌大家庭
这幅介绍真菌大家庭的海报是艺术家坎迪斯·艾黎特最新、也是难度最大的作品。她无法允许自己只是画上几个蘑菇，“蘑菇是真菌，但真菌不仅仅只包括蘑菇。”她说，“你的啤酒、葡萄酒、面包，还有你冰箱的后面，都是真菌。”海报的中心是啤酒和葡萄酒，其他还包括奶酪等美食，当然也包括那些对人类不太友好、容易引发疾病的真菌。
细菌“外星人”
这个像是从上世纪50年代科幻电影中走出的东西是一种细菌肠杆菌噬菌体T4。绘制者、化学工程师乔纳森·贺瑞斯说，在绘制之前自己对它一无所知，有一次在书上看到还不相信，直到他亲自在显微镜下观察到这种细菌，“这种细菌有细长的腿和像外星人一样怪异的外观”。
拟南芥的“社交”网络
拟南芥是一种植物，科学家们将与其具有相同生物学过程的相关基因通过各种线连接在一起，希望由此推测与已知特定特征相关的未特征化的基因。图中每条线代表着两个基因间的功能连接，不同的颜色反映出这两个基因具有相似特征的可能性大小。红色表示可能性很大，蓝色则表示可能性不大。
艾滋病病毒的3D模型
（图片来源：美国国家自然科学基金会网站，柯济编译）
或许你会以为这是一个毛线团，事实上这是由位于莫斯科的视觉科学公司的科学家们花费数月创建的艾滋病病毒的3D模型。伊凡·康斯坦蒂诺夫和他的团队用两种颜色描绘了病毒侵入细胞的情景：灰色免疫细胞；橙色艾滋病毒。来源光明日报)
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Science and Art: AIDS virus 3D Model (Photos)
Source: Xinhua at 08:42 on May 18, 2011
"The power of science is often not the most stirring language to express" many scientists believe this. To this end, the National Natural Science Foundation and Science magazine founder of the International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. Competition is divided into five units, including photographs, illustrations, posters, interactive games and non-interactive media (television, documentaries, etc.). Online scientific journals and scientific works will be devoted to winning the U.S. National Science Foundation award will be presented on the page works. Very much regret that, from 2003 to 2010 winning entries, we did not see the name of scientific research institutions in China, perhaps to some extent reflects the technological level of China and the international advanced level, especially in science and technology work in China persons consciousness and aesthetic science, scientists may be with Western developed countries, there is still a certain gap. Here, we have a selection of some 2010 photos, illustrations and posters category winners for everyone to enjoy.
Rippling water waves
Although the picture looks like the ocean surface, but in fact it is by the U.S. Argonne National Laboratory, Steven Jacques Banner and University of Chicago co-Seth Darling, taken by atomic force microscope single molecule surface photo Only a nano Baohou. Beautiful blue color is artificial, but the ocean-like wave is real. "Wave" is the gold surface of tens of thousands of molecular "self-arranged" result "molecular self-assembly" is one of the hot material science in recent years.
Fungus family
Introduced fungus family poster painting is the artist 坎迪斯艾黎 special date, but also the most difficult work. She could not allow myself to just draw a few mushrooms, "mushrooms are fungi, but not just include the mushroom fungus." She said, "Your beer, wine, bread, and the back of your fridge, are fungi." Posters the center of the beer and wine, which also include cheese and other food, of course, not including those on human-friendly, easy to disease-causing fungi.
Bacteria "alien"
Seems like 50 years from the last century, something out of science fiction movies, is a bacterium Enterobacter phage T4. Map makers, chemical engineer Jonathan Horace said, before drawing their own know nothing about it, and once saw in the book did not believe until he personally observed the bacterium under a microscope, "This species of bacteria have long, slender legs and as bizarre as the appearance of aliens. "
Arabidopsis thaliana "social" network
Arabidopsis thaliana is a plant, scientists will have the same biological processes and their related genes through a variety of cable connected, I hope this speculation and not relevant to the known characteristics of specific features of the gene. Each line graph represents the functional connectivity between the two genes in different colors reflect the characteristics of these two genes have the possibility of similar size. The possibility of a large red, blue said is unlikely.
3D model of HIV
(Source: U.S. National Science Foundation website, Ke Ji compilation)
Perhaps you might think this is a ball of yarn, in fact, this is a visual science companies in Moscow scientists take months to create 3D model of the AIDS virus. Constance Tanti Ivan Ivanov and his team in two colors depicting the virus invade cells in the scenario: Grey immune cells; orange HIV. Source Guangming Daily)
