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Science in the movies: From microscope to multiplex - An MRI scanner darkly

JUN 22, 2006
Physics Today
Nature : There’s more to science at the movies than Lex Luthor’s attempts to synthesize kryptonite. In the first of two features on film, John Whitfield looks at how a cinematographic technique can provide insights into the perception of reality. In the second, Alison Abbott meets Ben Heisenberg, a director whose first film is a taut moral fable of laboratory life.
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