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more about #scienceart more comments → Post-Nuked: I use to be interested in this. Oh, wait, no I wasn't. Oh my God! My right arm is...clicking on something else. more » matthewabel: Neutrin-O's are the breakfast of physicists. more » Bigdamnhero: Nice try, but all your pics are belong to nonsense. more » mcmachete: I can't get past the grammar. more » TemporalSword: But can I smell Dark Matter? more » Roklimber: I'm of the opinion that art has, or should have, some meaning and/or a message. It's a personal opinion, not a statement of fact so, please, no flamer... more » Elle: I know it's supposed to be funny, but my brain kinda shuts down when faced with such grammar. *shame* more » cylon_conspiracy: I take it this io9's response to the CRU email leaks. I was wondering if/when you'd acknowledge the story. Now I have my answer. "Deafening Silence." ... more » Im_your_Huckleberry: "It's an interesting contrast, but maybe not a contradiction: He worries what we're doing to the planet, but he's also celebrated the way we're transf... more » dabismail001: Melting icebergs don't raise sea levels. more » BangarangRufio867: I'm really confused. How does little Emily go from 1st grade to 2nd grade in less than a year? This little Emily does make you think about ice melti... more » Jes St.Lawrence: Just waiting on someone from the Billy Bob School of Thermodynamics and Swine Management to come tell us it's all a hoax. more » Dr Emilio Lizardo: Algae sex takes 2 hours? I think I'm jealous. more » modernHeretic: Algae money shots... that's hot. more » Jeriba: These are awesome. If I ruled the world, Best Microscopy Video would be a category at the Oscars. more » -
#scienceart
We Love The Taste Of Neutrinos, Not To Mention Atomic Happiness
Did you use to taste neutrinos? Do you believe in worm power? Italian design student Gabrie Coletti, aka the Nothing Corporation, posts art full of weird slogans, severed limbs and strange creatures. More » -
#ecodystopia
Photographer Documents Melting Icecaps, Celebrates Our Cyborg Evolution
Photographer James Balog is best known for his death-defying trips to Iceland, Greenland and Alaska, where he's documented the melting icecaps using photos and time-lapse images. But he's also made stunning images of cyborgs and "techno sapiens." More » -
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Algae Sex and Amoeba Smackdown - Best Microscopy Videos of the Year
Ever wonder what it looks like when algae have sex? Now you'll find out in this winning video from the Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Contest. More winning entries in our gallery, which includes an amoeba vs. yeast cell smackdown. More » -
#retrofuturism
The Inventor Of The Light-Space Modulator Couldn't Let The Nazis Get Their Hands On It
When Laszlo Moholy-Nagy fled the Nazis in the 1930s, he lugged this bizarre contraption through customs in country after country. The Light-Space Modulator looks like a mad-science experiment and sounds like a time machine, but it helped pioneer digital design. More » -
#madmicroscopy
The Eye-Popping Moment When Human Life Begins
This dazzling image looks like an orange sun blazing in an alien sky, but it's actually a micrograph of in-vitro fertilization, showing the moment at which the sperm penetrates the egg's membrane. It's just one of many award-winning science images. More » -
#photomicrography
The Microscopic Beauty of Photography's Smallest Subjects
Each year, Nikon holds its Small World Photomicrography Competition, showcasing the wonders of a world we can only see through a microscope. These finalists' photos offer unusual views on everything from rain on a butterfly's wing to fossilized dinosaur bones. More » -
#scienceart
Software Recreates An Entire City from Tourist Photographs
Using thousands of photographs of the Croatian city of Dubrovnik, a software program has created a beautiful, 3D rendering of the city. It looks like impressionist art, but it represents a major breakthrough in how computers process images. More » -
#exobotany
The Terrible Intoxicating Beauty Of The Ghost Orchid Returns To Florida
The supernatural glow of the mysterious ghost orchid is back in the Everglades for the third year in a row. This flower rarely blooms two years in a row, and was missing for a dozen years until 2007. More » -
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#monstersamongus
The Bizarre Collective Consciousness of Slime Mold
This shimmering, metallic structure isn't a new configuration of carbon nanotubes. It's actually a slime mold, which grows on dead plants. Not only does it look alien, but it has a very alien lifecycle. Individual slime mold cells can merge into one giant cell, up to 30 meters across. More » -
#scienceart
The Weird Surfaces Of Undersea Life, In Crochet And Plastic Trash
Weirdest science art we've seen lately: artists working with the Institute for Figuring have recreated the hyperbolic surfaces of undersea reefs using the plastic garbage that is helping to kill them — plus a lot of crocheting as well. Artworks include "The Ladies' Silurian Atoll" and "Cambrian Explosion Reef." -
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Scans Pierce To The Heart Of A Rocket Ship In Flight
This rocket ship thrums with a translucent glow as it slips into hyperspace in preparation for the long transgalactic voyage. Okay, actually, it's just a toy ship which artist Satre Stuelke has run through a CT scanner. Want to see more of his CT-scanner art? More » -
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An Organic Solar Power Cell's Beautiful Flaw
This isn't the mysterious landscape of an alien world. It's a closeup of annealed organic solar cells, complete with device-ruining cracks. It's just one of the amazing images from this year's Art Of Science competition. More » -
#art
New York's Alien Spider Nest Smells Like The Spice Winds
The alien spider queen got inside your space station, and now every bulkhead is covered with intoxicating, shimmering night-silk. That's what this new Park Avenue Armory installation by artist Ernesto Neto brings to mind, anyway. More » -
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The Haunting Beauty At The Heart Of A Cell's Wounded Monolayer
Here's a microscopy image of a fibroblast, stained with a few different antibodies. The green is microtubuli, the red is cell-contacts and the blue is DNA. It's just one of Jan Schmoranzer's amazing nano-art images. More » -
#retroscience
Wax Anatomical Models of Plague Victims from the Seventeenth Century
This tableau of the rotting bodies of plague victims was created by an obscure waxwork artist over 300 years ago, in an effort to create anatomically accurate models for medical researchers. More » -
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An Enzyme That Gives Your Body Energy - Modeled in 900 Kilos of Glass
Your body cannot run without the enzyme ATP-synthase. It manufactures ATP, a molecule that provides energy to cells. And now glass artist Colin Rennie has sculpted this crucial enzyme out of 30 meter-square glass plates. More » -
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Biology Rocks with Concert Posters for Academic Lectures
Somebody over in the Biology Dept. at University of North Carolina understands that science just freakin rocks. That's why they commission a local indie poster designer to create flyers for their lectures. More » -
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A Rare Collection of Victorian Glass Microbes
This gorgeous glass sculpture of an Actinophryid, an ocean microorganism, is over 100 years old. It's one the few surviving scientific models of tiny, swimming creatures created by a father-son team of glassmakers. More » -
#crackedoutdesign
Buildings That Look Like Spaceships You've Never Seen
Cutting-edge architecture, or weird starship design? Sometimes it's hard to tell. In our quest for buildings that look like famous spaceships, we came across some even more striking images that should be spaceships. Gallery below. -
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The Awesome Beauty Of Insect Brains And Single Cells
This glowing green monstrosity isn't a radioactive Doctor Who monster, it's a common fruitfly, part of Duke University's awesome microscopy gallery. (The right image shows a larval brain, the left shows dorsal closure.) Gallery below.
