New mini library of I&A Photoshop add-ons

Publication images in scientific journals often look nothing like the originals. Imaging & Analysis, LLC (I&A) is on a mission to do something about it. They’ve just released a new mini library of I&A Photoshop add-ons for automating many common pre-press image prep procedures as well as a series of “how-to” videos, posted on YouTube and their own website, quickphotoshop.com, to demonstrate novel approaches using Photoshop to correct these images.

How is artificial snow made?

In what may be the warmest Winter Olympics on record, Sochi looked more like southern California. With few real snowflakes to blanket Sochi’s slopes, the latest episode of Reactions by the American Chemical Society, explains how science kept the Winter Olympics alive with artificial snow. Video by Kirk Zamieroski Series created by Adam Dylewski Produced […]

How to create selective holes in graphene

Researchers devised a way of making tiny holes of controllable size in sheets of graphene, a development that could lead to ultrathin filters for improved desalination or water purification.