Science Exposed

In today’€™s New York Times, science writer Cornelia Dean profiles Felice Frankel, author of the MIT Press book Envisioning Science: The Design and Craft of the Science Image. Ms. Dean considers whether the photographs that Ms. Frankel produces as part of her work to help scientists display their research is art or just plain science. While Ms. Frankel is adamant that her work is about representing scientific phenomena, one could easily hang it on the wall and no one would know the difference. Below are examples of a few particularly amazing photographs (cropped to fit) from Envisioning Science. Can you guess what they are? Send your answers in by posting a comment!

Example 1.

A) E. coli colony in a petri dish
B) The underside of a jelly fish
C) A new fiber made from spider webs

Example 2.

A) White coral
B) Yeast colonies
C) Tooth decay

Example 3.

A) Mummified mastodon skin
B) Pacific salmon brain
C) An acrylimide gel

Example 4.

A) A tiger salamander
B) Spanish moss
C) Mouse kidney