Cutting-edge science as you’ve never seen it before

By viewing scientists at work in the lab as artistic, creative figures, photographer Dan Stier has created a surreal series that shows researchers in a whole new lightA woman marches towards the camera on a sloping treadmill, fists clenched. Above her head is a muddle of electrical cabling; behind her are walls of tinny, zigzagged metal and surrounding her is a pervasive sense of the 70s B-movie. Her shimmering silver spacesuit and custard-yellow hood are garish and camp, reminiscent of Roger Mo