Slideshows
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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, glowing rivers of lava and scarred volcanic plains share the stage with more obscure markers of tectonic activity—sulfurous crystals, 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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Innovation
Let There Be Light
Astronomers will soon find scores of Earth-sized exoplanets, but imaging them may be decades away. That is, unless NASA decides to build a starshade.
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Ideas
Into the Uncanny Valley
New findings shed light on a century’s worth of bizarre explanations for the eerie feeling we get around lifelike robots.
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World
Signs from Above
The release of an apocalyptic movie prompts NASA to debunk planetary rumors, fowl play shuts down the LHC, and the Catholic Church discusses alien life.
