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Nature 441, 924-925 (22 June 2006) | doi:10.1038/441924a; Published online 21 June 2006
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Science in the movies: From microscope to multiplex - Betrayal at the bench
Alison Abbott1
- Alison Abbott is Nature's senior European correspondent.
Abstract
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.
Johannes walks across the grass to a Munich research institute on his first day in the lab. A woman approaches him.
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