Slideshows
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The Hidden World of Ants
May 06, 2010
Mark Moffett travels around the world taking stunning close-up photographs that capture the fascinating lives of ants.
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Butterfly Nets for Ghosts
April 15, 2010
Researchers bury thousands of devices miles deep into the ice at the bottom of the Earth—all in an attempt to catch the universe’s most elusive particle.
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The Paintbrush and the Plant
March 11, 2010
Thinking spring? Ramble through the lush floral landscapes of The Art of Plant Evolution, where modern science and the tradition of botanical painting meet.
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The Ancient, Distant, and Dead
March 04, 2010
Inspired by scientific research, Katie Paterson creates art based on data from faraway melting glaciers, long-dead stars, and the initial moments of the universe.
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The Pre-Electric Slide
February 25, 2010
In the mid-1800s, hobbyists’ microscopes and slides took up a place beside the piano in the parlor. Explore a selection of antique slides of remarkable precision and beauty.
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Appetite for Destruction
February 18, 2010
Chris Jordan traveled to a remote area of the Pacific and returned with snapshots of a burgeoning ecological crisis, from the belly of the world’s largest garbage pile.
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The Age of Impossible Numbers
February 11, 2010
In Running the Numbers, photographer Chris Jordan attempts to convey the vastness of modern consumption with clever visualizations.
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The Science of Stuff
February 04, 2010
A visual tour of the colorful, the strange, and the super-strong in the Material ConneXion library, where new forms of cloth, concrete, metal, and more line the walls.
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Life Imitating Life
January 28, 2010
Life, as the expression goes, isn’t always pretty. But with a few tricks of the lab, life in its simplest, single-celled forms can be manipulated into a thing of preternatural beauty.
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A Green World
December 17, 2009
From the frigid Japanese tundra to the heart of the Amazon Basin—award-winning photography captures the full splendor of Earth’s arboreal landscapes.
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The Exquisite Corpse of Science
December 10, 2009
Drawings from science communicator Tim Jones' worldwide art mosaic that asks scientists, journalists, students, and others what science means to them.
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Our Adapting Future
November 19, 2009
Current developments in autonomous, biological, and evolutionary robotics will have a profound impact on the future of interactive and dynamic architectural space.
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Fire, Water, Acid, and Stone
November 12, 2009
In Bernhard Edmaier’s photographs, rivers of lava and scarred volcanic plains share the stage with more obscure tectonic markers: eerily hued lakes and pools of bubbling mud.
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A Miniature Miscellany
November 05, 2009
In their newest collaboration, Felice Frankel and George Whitesides explore the nanoscale world, from molecules to quantum dots.
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Traveling Through Time and Stars
October 22, 2009
In Far Out, stunning astronomical images and lyrical essays on the nature of light and space explore the universe’s past.
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Luke Jerram: Objectively Inspired
October 15, 2009
The stunning work of an enigmatic artist. "We’re imposing our culture on scientific data whether we like it or not."
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Hypermusic Prologue
August 10, 2009
Physicist Lisa Randall brings her theories of an extradimensional universe to the stage in Hèctor Parra’s opera. Watch and listen.
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Inside the Mathematical Mind
July 21, 2009
Mariana Cook’s stunning portraits and narration from her subjects offers a candid look at the secret lives of mathematicians.
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Transitory Objects
July 09, 2009
Architecture, conceptual art, and theoretical science blur in these stunning, "permanently unfinished" forms in Vienna.
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David Malin’s Ancient Light
June 12, 2009
"Looking at science books as a child, all the galaxies and star forming regions were in black and white. It's a kind of journey back."
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[Slideshow] In Seeds We Trust
June 09, 2009
The Svalbard Seed Vault, encased in a mountain on a remote archipelago in far northern Norway, is the last-ditch source of the world’s seeds.
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An Icon of Sustainability
May 08, 2009
Since opening last September in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco's California Academy of Sciences has fast become an icon of architecture for the eco era.
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Ear to the Ground
April 22, 2009
Natural quiet is a rapidly disappearing resource. But if you travel far enough, and listen carefully, you can still find it.
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The Awe of Natural History Collections
February 12, 2009
Visiting the hidden side of natural history museums, where the vast collections of scientific specimens are kept.
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Ideas
I Tried Almost Everything Else
John Rinn, snowboarder, skateboarder, and “genomic origamist,” on why we should dumpster-dive in our genomes and the inspiration of a middle-distance runner.
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Ideas
Going, Going, Gone
The second most common element in the universe is increasingly rare on Earth—except, for now, in America.
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Ideas
Earth-like Planets Aren’t Rare
Renowned planetary scientist James Kasting on the odds of finding another Earth-like planet and the power of science fiction.
