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 The entry was one of hundreds submitted for the contest, which
aims to highlight the latest techniques of scientific imaging.
Second place went to Dr. Douglas Clark from San Francisco,
California who used polarized light to create a time-lapse movie
showing crystals forming on a single drop of a solution saturated
with caffeine in water. Clark's time-lapse condenses 20 minutes of
crystallization into 40 seconds.
Third place honors went to Dr. John Hart from the Department of
Atmospheric and Oceanic Science at the University of
Colorado-Boulder for a detailed look at oil floating on the surface
of water. The video shows pools of water a fraction of the size of a
human hair slowly evaporating, as the oil form into larger droplets.
This microscopic view of the fluid dynamics involved when oil and
water meet could offer researchers clues on how better to deal with
future oil spills.
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