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- The University of Hong Kong created the world’s first soft, 3D, biocompatible semiconductor made from hydrogel that mimics tissue and interacts with living cells.
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- Marble that looks wet. This jaw-dropping detail comes from “The Nymph” (La Ninfa) by Italian sculptor Giovanni Battista Lombardi (1823–1880)where solid stone is carved to mimic water rippling around her bare feet. The full sculpture was executed in 1858 for Palazzo Facchi in Brescia
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Visualizing the World’s Fertility Rate over 200 years
Starting in the 20th century, the fertility rates of the world went crashing down. In just one or two generations nations went from 7 or 8 babies per woman on average to 1 or 2. In this video we visualize … Continue reading
Digital twins offer “a very powerful way of developing our cities” say experts | Dezeen
Amy Frearson Buildmedia has created a digital twin of Wellington, New Zealand Digital twins are starting to transform the way that cities are designed and managed, according to experts. The technology, which involves creating a digital clone of a real-world … Continue reading
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We are starting to crack the mystery of how lightning and thunderstorms work
Lightning strikes are not continuous but proceed in steps – but we don’t yet know why this is. Image credit – Bernardo de Menezes Petrucci/Wikimedia, licenced under CC BY-SA 4.0 Imagine lying on a green hill watching the clouds … Continue reading
Floating Black Balloons Explore Contradictions in Artist Tadao Cern’s Installations
Artist Tadao Cern often considers dualities and contradictions—lightness and heaviness, minimal and intricate, inanimate and lively. He channels these relational tensions into “BB,” installations featuring black balloons that float in parallel planes and incline in rows. “These boundaries are a … Continue reading
The Milky Way as You’ve Never Seen It Before – AMNH SciCafe
Fly through the galaxy with Museum astrophysicist Jackie Faherty, who takes us on a dazzling tour of new research and data visualizations made possible by recently released data from the Gaia space telescope. In April 2018, the European Space Agency’s … Continue reading
Four-dimensional physics in two dimensions – ScienceBlog.com
For the first time, physicists have built a two-dimensional experimental system that allows them to study the physical properties of materials that were theorized to exist only in four-dimensional space. An international team of researchers from Penn State, ETH Zurich … Continue reading
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