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"It’s more about not discarding what might be considered unwanted, but instead finding some use for it," says the artist. Alejandro Aguilar Canela finds profound value in what may be seen as some of our bleakest emotions.
NASA’s next Gateways to Blue Skies competition invites collegiate teams to imagine innovative new ways aircraft could inspect land-based infrastructure, such as bridges and tunnels, to improve safety, reliability, and costs by 2035 or sooner. Infrastructure is the foundation of the nation’s strong economy, global competitiveness, and daily quality of life. When that infrastructure is
Elements Festival Turns the Forest Into a Fantastical Playground of Art and Music Elements Music & Arts Festival in Long Pond, Pennsylvania, invites you to explore an immersive world where music, art, and adventure come together. It showcases over 100 artists across multiple stages and genres, but the fun doesn’t stop when the music does.
“For me, paintings represent an attempt (sometimes more successful, sometimes less so) to grasp a ‘something’ that for some reason deeply moves me, agitates me,” says Turin-based artist Francesco Pirazzi . In atmospheric, dreamlike paintings, deceptively simple architecture, trees, walkways, and other features of the landscape glow amid uncanny lighting.
Drone Photographer Captures First-Known Aerial Footage of a Humpback Whale Giving Birth Ver esta publicación en Instagram Una publicación compartida por Alex | Forrest Media (@forrestfov) When drone pilot Alexander Forrest set out to capture the annual whale migration off the coast of New South Wales, he never thought he’d get some history-making footage.
Many of NASA’s most important aerospace breakthroughs that began in the laboratory were ultimately proven in the sky. For decades, experts at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland conducted flight tests — piloting aircraft into targeted environments such as icing clouds and carefully defined atmospheric routes. This approach allowed them to collect measurements directly in flight, providing critical data
Happy Eco News Mapping Earth’s Underground Fungal Networks Reveals a Hidden Giant Mapping Earth's underground fungal networks reveals arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi stretch roughly 110 quadrillion kilometers through global topsoil, with fewer than 10 percent of biodiversity hotspots falling within protected areas.
Happy Eco News Geoversity Trains Biocultural Leadership for Conservation from Panama’s Most Critical Biodiversity Corridor Geoversity trains biocultural leadership for conservation through immersive programs at its 5,000-acre Mamoní Valley Preserve in Panama, partnering with Indigenous communities, Smithsonian, Harvard, and Jane Goodall's Roots and Shoots.
The deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) of living organisms contains regulatory elements that control when, where and to what extent specific genes are turned on or off. They can be co-opted to create "gene switches" that hold significant potential for understanding gene expression and for therapeutic applications, particularly for the noninvasive treatment or management of genetic disorders.
Mabona's sculptures highlight how the personal and cultural intersect alongside the distinctly South African sense of resilience. Known for his large origami-style works , Sipho Mabona turns his attention to a deeply personal object in a new series: the calabash .
Hyperrealistic Paintings of Ornate Curtains Mysteriously Draped To Pique Your Curiosity What if a curtain could hide nothing and still make you want to look behind it? Artist Leeah Joo explores that question in Parrhasius, a series of meticulously painted draperies that seem to hover in front of an endless black void. The folds appear tangible.
17th-Century Dutch Painting Restoration Reveals a Missing Soldier Playing a Drinking Game At first glance, Pieter de Hooch’s Figures in a Courtyard looks like a quiet scene of everyday life. Sunlight washes across the brick courtyard. A woman raises a glass while a man smokes a long clay pipe; nearby, a young girl approaches with glowing coals.
Wallace's glowing acrylic paintings feature crystals, enigmatic energy forces, starlight, and specters. From mysterious lights and malevolent mists to ghosts and spirits like the Diné’s skinwalkers, the desert has long spawned myths and tales of the supernatural.
"Clay, as a medium, has a way of connecting us to the past," Yousif says. Inspired by both the 20th-century funk art movement in the Bay Area and the visual language of the country of her birth, Iraqi-American artist Maryam Yousif merges ancient cultural heritage and contemporary playfulness in vibrant ceramics.
Utah Clean Energy wants to make sure new homes are powered by renewable energy. Spencer Cox, the governor of Utah, aims for 150,000 new homes to be built in his state in the next few years. And the nonprofit Utah Clean Energy wants to make sure these homes produce little or no planet-warming carbon pollution.
Happy Eco News Protecting the Sky Islands Ecosystem: 35 Years of Conservation Protecting the Sky Islands ecosystem has been the Sky Island Alliance's mission for 35 years, but continental-scale border wall construction through critical wildlife corridors now threatens decades of conservation work across 55 mountain ranges.
[By Christian Honce | UK College of Medicine] Picture this: You find a small fire isolated in your kitchen. If you had the right tool, you might be able to put it out. But before you can, the sprinklers turn on and soak your entire house. An automatic response to an issue has now damaged
Artist Paints Dreamlike Figures That Blur the Line Between Memory and Imagination Between reality and imagination exists a space where memories, emotions, and personal histories overlap. Ukraine-born American artist Alla Bartoshchuk explores this uncertain territory in her oil paintings, using symbolic figures and surreal environments to reflect on identity, transformation, and the human experience.
Black-And-White Photo Exhibition Explores 50 Years of a Changing American Landscape For five decades, photographer Mimi Plumb has turned her camera toward a changing American landscape. Now, her first museum exhibition, Blazing Light: Photographs by Mimi Plumb, brings together three major bodies of work at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
Largest Exhibition of Afro-Cuban Art Ever Staged Is Now on View in Miami Afro-Cuban culture has shaped Cuba’s music, religion, visual language, and artistic identity for centuries. Now, the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami is celebrating that legacy with the largest survey of Afro-Cuban art ever staged.
Firefighters raced to save a 1,000-year-old monastery in northeastern Spain on Friday as a growing wildfire prompted the hasty removal of the bones of medieval monarchs buried there. This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies .
9 million acres) of protected tropical forest—an area double the size of Wales—have been lost to wildfires since 2001. This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Accelerating at an alarming rate, this destruction threatens sanctuaries once thought safe, according to a new University of Sheffield study.
teamLab Illuminates Osaka’s Botanical Garden With 20,000 Glowing Sunflowers After dark, approximately 20,000 white sunflowers begin to glow at Nagai Botanical Garden in Osaka, Japan. This new installation, Life is the Small Sun Flickering in the Dark, by international art collective teamLab transforms a seasonal field of sunflowers into a luminous, interactive artwork.
Banksy Artworks Have Cost UK Taxpayers Nearly £150,000 Sometimes, art can come with surprising costs. Three Banksy artworks in London have cost British taxpayers nearly £150,000 (about $200,000) in removal, security, and other expenses. The mounting costs have renewed a familiar debate surrounding the elusive street artist’s work: Is it vandalism or valuable public art?