Van Gogh’s Starry Night Recreated With Hubble’s Top 100 Images
Alex Harrison Parker, a PHD astronomy student at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics recreated Vincent van Gogh's iconic painting "Starry Night" with Hubble's Top 100 Images downloaded from the internet. His inspiration struck one…
Nature’s Shiniest Fruit
These shiny gems with iridescent color are not man-made baubles, but real fruits of Pollia condensata that grows in the forests of several African countries. The most intriguing thing about the fruit is that…
Nicky Assmann Reveals the Many Faces of Soap Film
Netherland-based artist Nicky Assmann handcrafted an apparatus that produces a layer of soap film at regular intervals. The film bursts eventually, but not before the lighting and the pull of gravity reveal the…
Incredible Transparent Specimens by Iori Tomita
Welcome to the strange and wonderful world of Iori Tomita. Taking the scientific dyeing method to study skeletal system one step further, Tomita refines this technique with an artistic eye and reveals a…
Researchers Transform Soap Film into the World’s Thinnest Screen
It is a known fact that the surface of soap bubble is a micro membrane. Yoichi Ochiai (University of Tokyo), Alexis Oyama (Carnegie Mellon University) and Keisuke Toyoshima (University of Tsukuba) have proposed…
Human Organs on a Chip May Replace Animal Testing
What if we could test drugs without animal models? Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have created a gut-on-a-chip microdevice lined by living human cells that mimics…
Origami-Inspired Paper Sensor Could Detect Malaria and HIV
Inspired by the paper-folding art of origami, chemists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a 3-D paper sensor that may be able to test for diseases such as malaria and…
Rainbow-Tasting Ants by Mohamed Babu
Inspired by seeing ants turn white after drinking spilt milk, Photographer and scientist Mohamed Babu decided to capture images of ants eating sugar drops mixed with edible food coloring. He noticed that the ants only liked…
Tiniest Vertebrate on Earth Found in Papua New Guinea
American scientists have discovered the smallest known vertebrate species on Earth. The adult body size for these tiny frogs ranges from just seven to eight millimetres. The frog is called Paedophryne amauensis, named…
Changing Waters by Nathalie Miebach
Central to this work is my desire to explore the role visual aesthetics play in the translation and understanding of science information. ~ Nathalie Miebach Nathalie Miebach is an artist and scientist, two words…
Incredible 3D Mandelbulb
This is not some mysterious deep sea coral that grows in the abyss. Its true identity might come as a shock, since it is the product of a math formula constructed by Daniel White and Paul Nylander. It…
Scientists Discover Practical Applications of Self-Oscillating Gels
Self-oscillating gels are materials that can change back and forth between different states without stimulation. The researchers from MIT and the University of Pittsburgh have discovered that by changing the gel's size or…
Solar Bottle Bulb Lights Up Philippines
Isang Litrong Liwanag (A Liter of Light), is a sustainable lighting project which aims to bring the eco-friendly Solar Bottle Bulb to disprivileged communities in Philippines. Designed and developed by students from the…
16 Habitable Alien Planets Found!
On September 12, scientists announced a monumental discovery of 50 alien planets outside our solar system, including 16 so-called super-Earths, one of which orbits the edge of the habitable zone of its star. The…
MORPHOLOGIC ‘Natural History’ Series
Natural History by Morphologic Studio is a series of installations that combine sound and light to transform the minute creatures that inhabit our coral reefs into strange, abstract works of surreal art. Here…
Flatsun by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Flatsun is the latest project by Mexican artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. A circular display that simulates the turbulence at the surface of the Sun using mathematical equations. The piece interacts with people by varying…
Biorock by Joseph Foster Ellis
BIOROCK, 2010-2012 | Metal and limestone coral installation, Lombak Indonesia | Public collection of Gili Island Trust BIOROCK sculptures, created by American artist Joseph Foster Ellis, are metal rods that have an electrical pulse flowing…
Cars Could Run on Recycled Newspaper
Tulane University scientists have discovered a novel bacterial strain, dubbed “TU-103,” that can use paper to produce butanol, a biofuel that can serve as a substitute for gasoline. TU-103 is the first bacterial strain…
Music Video Created with 288000 Jelly Beans
Vertical Greenhouse Designed for Urban Life
Thread Drawings by Debbie Smyth
Environmental Art by Ned Kahn
Fuckopalypse by People Too
Shadow by Rook Floro
