Just for Fun!
See if you can f nd the 8 differences in each set of images.
Molecular motors, a portrait
The image illustrates our model regarding HMM (heavy meromyosin) adsorption on surfaces. Proteins adsorb in a functional “heads up” configuration on hydrophobic surfaces but both in heads up and down (not so functional) configurations on hydrophilic surfaces.
Nuria Albet Torres, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Micro underwater thorny flower
Scanning electron micrograph of the spicules of the Herdmania momus sea sponge. These spicules are made of vaterite, a very rare and metastable polymorph of CaCO3.
Boaz Pokroy, Harvard University
Images on the top were submitted to the Materials Research Society “Science as Art” competition (http://www.mrs.org/scienceasart).
Images on the bottom were modified in Adobe Photoshop for this “Look Again” activity.
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LOOK AGAIN…. MRS Bulletin 36, 144 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1557/mrs.2011.29
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1557/mrs.2011.29