Sun Sends Out Largest Solar Flare in Years
An extremely powerful solar flare, which is the largest in the current solar weather cycle, rocked the Sun on Tuesday, resulting in a coronal mass ejection (CME). But as the gigantic bursts of…
Slow Becoming Delightful by William Trossell
This project, Slow Becoming Delightful, was done by artist William Trossell. It was designed to draw attention to the magical properties of weather events. The installation consisted of a series of passively activated…
Underwater Sculpture by Jason deCaires Taylor
Jason de Caires Taylor's underwater sculptures create a unique, absorbing and expansive visual seascape. Highlighting natural ecological processes Taylor's interventions explore the intricate relationships that exist between art and science. His works become artificial reefs,…
Honor Harger: A History Of The Universe In Sound
Are you listening to the Universe? Artist-technologist Honor Harger listens to the weird and wonderful noises of stars and planets and pulsars. In her work, she tracks the radio waves emitted by ancient…
Scientists Create Vaccine to Fight Heroin High
A new study demonstrates how a novel vaccine produces antibodies (a kind of immune molecule) that stop not only heroin but also other psychoactive compounds metabolized from heroin from reaching the brain to produce euphoric…
The Enchanting Glasswinged Butterfly
Believe it or not, this beautiful creature is real. It is not the creation of photoshop rendering, or strange lighting effect. This is 100% natural. This butterfly’s wings, spanning up to six centimeters,…
How To Be In Two Places At Once
An ambitious experiment to make a glass sphere exist in two places at once could provide the most sensitive test of quantum theory yet. The experiment will place a sphere containing millions of…
The End Of NASA’s Shuttle Era
In this image provided by NASA, Space Shuttle Atlantis touches down at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility in Cape Canaveral, Fla., completing its 13-day mission to the International Space Station and…
Newly Developed Fluorescent Protein Reveals Internal Organs
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed the first fluorescent protein that enables scientists to clearly "see" the internal organs of living animals without the need for a…
NASA Spacecraft to Enter Asteroid’s Orbit on July 15
On July 15, NASA's Dawn spacecraft will begin a prolonged encounter with the asteroid Vesta, making the mission the first to enter orbit around a main-belt asteroid. The main asteroid belt lies between…
Japan Discover Massive Rare Earths in Pacific Seabed
Japanese researchers say they have discovered vast deposits of rare earth minerals, used in many hi-tech appliances, in the seabed. The geologists estimate that there are about a 100bn tons of the rare…
World’s First Synthetic Organ Transplant
An international team of surgeons successfully carried out the world's first transplant of a synthetic windpipe. On June 9, a 36-year-old man suffering from late stage tracheal cancer, received a new trachea, or…
No Way Home by Rafa Zubiría
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