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Microfluidic Art on a Chip

J Tanner Nevil is a microfluidics expert who occasionally likes to turn his laboratory into an art studio. Here, you can see that he's turned his microfluidic chip — often called a "lab on a chip" — into a painting made entirely by piping tiny amounts of colored fluid into canals that are about 20 microns in width. All the colored lines you see here are actually miniscule grooves full of liquid. Why did Nevil and his student Austin Day create this? They wanted a "microfluidic chip that looked cool." Check out some more micro-fluid art below. More »

7:00 AM on Fri Jul 11 2008
By Annalee Newitz
2,201 views, 5 comments

Latest by meirelle: This is probably one of the coolest things I have ever seen. Just the fact that it's so tiny. It more »

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Space Madness Strikes Security Guard

A painting of space, based on satellite imagery, freaked out a museum security guard so much, he slashed it and ruined it. Vija Celmins' painting may be called "Night Sky #2," but it depicts empty space, with no view of the ground or any other reference point, and it's based on images from space. Carnegie Museum security guard Timur Serebrykov hated the $1.2 million painting so much he "snapped" (says his laywer) and used a sharp implement to slash it and ruin it. More »

4:00 PM on Wed Jun 11 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
2,853 views, 40 comments

Latest by note the sarcasm: Um...has the man ever looked up before? What would he do then, I wonder? more »

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Is "Stay-Green Grass" The Artist's Medium Of The Future?

I was already excited about Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey's grass photographs — because who doesn't love photographs developed using the light-sensitive properties of seedling grass instead of photo paper? — but then I found out they were using special long-lasting genetically modified grass as well. Which makes the pics a whole other category of bio-art, as well as a signpost to the way we may use living matter (instead of dead trees) to reproduce images physically in the future. The Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research in Wales developed a special strain of stay-green grass that can retain images for years, instead of weeks. A few more of my favorite grass photos below the fold. More »

1:40 PM on Fri Jun 6 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
1,796 views, 4 comments

Latest by Ghede: I just want to get my picture taken, smash the glass, and see what I grow into. more »

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New York And London Finally Connected Via Undersea Tunnel

The telectroscope, a looking-glass tunnel connecting New York and London has been completed at last, over 100 years after it was abandoned. The tunnel, which starts in Brooklyn, was designed and partly executed by late 1800s inventor Alexander Stanhope St. George. A series of mirrors, cameras and a large underground tunnel, connects the two cities. More details about the scope and gallery after the jump. More »

2:30 PM on Thu May 29 2008
By Meredith Woerner
6,737 views, 30 comments

Latest by madameh: I just went down to Tower Bridge to 'meet' my boyfriend who got up early to get to Brooklyn Bridge. more »

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OMG Space Doggy!

Here's a detail from "Chip And Batty Explore Space" by artist William Wegman, showing a dog looking out from a space station. The full image shows another dog space-walking in a spacesuit. It's just one of the pieces of freaktastic art that NASA commissioned over the decades, which are going on display at the Smithsonian Institution. Click through for a few of our other favorites. More »

3:31 PM on Thu May 22 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
1,335 views, 15 comments

Latest by Silver_Back: @Tim Faulkner: @laughingacademy: ZING! more »

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The Terrible Beauty Of Alison Hiltner's Viruses

You're looking a deadly virus right in the face, but it's not a new work of microscopy or nano-imaging. Instead, it's a giant model made by Minnesota artist Aliston Hiltner. To confront us with the strange beauty of pathogens in her latest show, "Pathology," she used 6,000 balloons. Her work also includes weirdly industrial looking replacement hearts and kidneys, and a whole range of supervillain gear, including hypno-goggles and a mask that encrypts your evil plans. Click through for a gallery. More »

4:00 PM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
1,469 views, 3 comments

Latest by Jeff-Minor: I think if I read a book where the aliens looked like this, they would then be truly alien. And more »

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The Terrible Beauty In The Heart Of A Rat

These luminous shapes are cardiac fibroblasts from a newborn rat, suspended in a collagen-thick film which is stimulating the environment around the cells. This makes them express a protein called DDR2, which scientists believe help cells to sense their surroundings and signal to the cells that they need to remodel themselves in response. The blue part is the cell nucleus, the green part is the cell's cytoskeleton and the red staining is the DDR2 at work. This image is just one of Chris Robinson's last-minute entries in the 21st. NanoArt competition, which have become my favorite entrants. Click through to view the others. More »

10:12 AM on Thu Mar 13 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
631 views, 7 comments

Latest by hageesheart: I love this stuff. It fills me with hope. Well, mostly hope, & a little bit of Lovecraftian horror. One more »

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Airbrushed Space Pics Are Abstract Art

Is this art? This picture of the Cat's Eye Nebula, and other images from the Hubble Space Telescope, are hanging at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. The exhibition of science photos has made people question whether a photo taken by a machine can be art. But the more you examine that question, the more you realize how artificial these photos really are. More »

10:00 AM on Fri Feb 15 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
3,575 views, 14 comments

Latest by IrisMR: @goldfarb: I disagree, because they don't release the less pretty pictures to the public. Plus, you can go right ahead more »

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The Cyber-Crow Attacks!

This Venetian mask looks like a crow-headed alien assimilated by the Borg. Kaibara on Flickr found this mask among a bizarre cyborg mask collection in Venice. Click through for an image of the whole set. More »

2:00 PM on Wed Jan 23 2008
By charliejane
2,147 views, 8 comments

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A Lab Disaster Makes For Great Nano-Art

When things go wrong at the nano-scale, it can yield the coolest images. Like this failed oxidation of a piece of silicon, which went south because the artists didn't use enough chromium. Some of the nano-art in the 21st Nano Art Competition looks a tad cheesy and fake, but the best contenders show off something unexpected (and maybe migraine-inducing) that really happened in the lab. Check out more of our favorites after the jump, and vote for your favorite here. More »

6:20 AM on Tue Jan 15 2008
By charliejane
816 views, 1 comment

Latest by geekgrrl: where art and science meet. i love it. more »