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Aerial Views of Our Water World
Cerro Prieto Geothermal Power Station, Baja, Mexico 2012. © Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto / Howard Greenberg Gallery and Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York. Throughout...
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Sonic Bloom! A New Solar-Powered Sculpture
“Sonic Bloom,” a solar sculpture at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle. Photo courtesy of Dan Corson. When the Pacific Science Center in Seattle put out a call for public art demonstrating solar...
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Diana Beltran Herrera’s Flock of Paper Birds
Hairy woodpecker (Picoides villosus) © Diana Beltran Herrera Diana Beltran Herrera had a realization a couple of years ago. “I started to feel closer to nature, but more, I recognized that I was in...
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These Tattoos Honor Lost, Not-So-Loved Species
Samantha Dempsey has designed tattoos of little-known extinct creatures, like this species of shrimp, Syncaris pasadenae. Image courtesy of Samantha Dempsey. As a freshman at the Rhode Island School...
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Bee-utiful! The Stinging Insect Gets a Close-Up
Augochlorella aurata, Boonesboro, Maryland. USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab. About a half hour’s drive northeast of downtown Washington, D.C., at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Patuxent Wildlife...
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What Would a Cross Between a Polar Bear and a Grizzly Really Look Like?
The polar bear (left) and grizzly (right) have been known to mate. © Nickolay Lamm/Business Insider. Artist Nickolay Lamm’s depiction of a polar-grizzly hybrid. © Nickolay Lamm/Business Insider. There...
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This Is Mars in Extremely High Resolution
Defrosting the Crests of Inca City, LAT: -81.5° LONG: 296.3° © NASA/JPL/University of Arizona “The nature of this polygonal network, unique on Mars, remains poorly understood, but seems to be linked...
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Macro or Micro? Test Your Sense of Scale
You might be curious, is this something macroscopic or microscopic? It’s actually the wing of a green darner dragonfly, as seen through a scanning electron microscope. Image by Paul Kelly. Stephen...
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Animal Specimens, From Fish to Birds to Mammals, Get Inked
Horseshoe crab. Image by Adam Cohen and Ben Labay. Adam Cohen and Ben Labay are surrounded by thousands of fish specimens, all preserved in jars of alcohol and formalin. At the Texas Natural Science...
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A New App Turns Fractals Into Ornate Art
Image courtesy of Frax As a mathematical concept, the fractal can be intimidating. Benoit Mandelbrot, the Polish-born mathematician who coined the term, defined a fractal as “a rough or fragmented...
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The Science Behind Earth’s Many Colors
Searles Lake, California © Bernhard Edmaier Photographer Bernhard Edmaier is a geologist by training, and it is this knowledge base of the processes that create geological features that he leans on...
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Do Our Brains Find Certain Shapes More Attractive Than Others?
Jean (Hans) Arp, Consiente de sa Beauté (Conscious of Her Beauty), 1957, polished bronze. Image courtesy of Chrystal Smith, Art Associate, Science. A century ago, a British art critic by the name of...
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Should We Use Body Painting to Teach Anatomy?
© Danny Quirk There are tribal tattoos, photorealistic tattoos, celtic tattoos and biomechanical tattoos. Then, there is a whole genre called anatomical tattoos. Chris Nuñez, a tattoo artist and judge...
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Art Chronicles Glaciers As They Disappear
“Melting Ice,” a site-specific installation by artist Jyoti Duwadi, is part of “Vanishing Ice: Alpine and Polar Landscapes in Art 1775-2012,” on view now at the Whatcom Museum in Bellingham, WA. In a...
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This is What Happens When You Ask Scientists to Explain Their PhDs in Dance
Using interpretive dance, Cedric Tan, a biologist at the University of Oxford, explains his PhD thesis, “Sperm competition between brothers and female choice.” Credit: vimeo.com/cedrictan To the lay...
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