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Nature 441, 924-925 (22 June 2006) | doi:10.1038/441924a; Published online 21 June 2006

Science in the movies: From microscope to multiplex - Betrayal at the bench

Alison Abbott1

  1. Alison Abbott is Nature's senior European correspondent.

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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.