See if you can find the 8 differences in each set of images.
Newborn star absorbs interstellar dust
This optical microscope image shows the assembly of colloidal photonic crystals (green strips on the left side) onto a polymer microsphere.
The photonic materials are silica-coated magnetite nanoclusters and the polymer microspheres are made of Polyethylene Glycol Diacrylate. The sizes of microspheres are ∼100 µm.
Mingsheng Wang, University of California–Riverside, USA
Pop-art tree of life
A DNA liquid-crystal phase in a droplet of salmon DNA water solution.
The original photo was taken under a polarized light microscope with a full wave retardation plate, with magnification of 20×. The eight subsequent images were created in an image processing software.
Joanna Olesiak-Banska, Katarzyna Matczyszyn, and Marek Samoc, Wrocław University of Technology, Poland
The answers will be in the October 2013 issue.
June 2013 answer key
