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Paper Wildlife Sculptures by Artist Diana Beltrán Herrera Document Nature’s Most Striking Details
In 2012, Bristol-based artist Diana Beltrán Herrera (previously) began sculpting impeccably layered paper birds and other wildlife as a way to record her surroundings. Her lifelike pieces continuously have captured nature’s finely detailed and minuscule elements, like the fibrous texture of … Continue reading
The mysterious echo from the Sun: the IBEX Ribbon | Unsolved Mystery in Physics
Go to http://brilliant.org/DrBecky and sign up for free. The first 200 people that go to that link will get 20% off the annual premium subscription. In 2009 the IBEX satellite detected an excess of atoms reflected back from a particular … Continue reading
Wildlife revival: Conservation wins for tigers and gorillas
As mountain gorillas number more than 1,000 and India’s tiger populations rebound, recovery efforts reap their rewards. Nick Clark As we mark World Conservation Day this week, it is a good time for some heartening news from the environmental … Continue reading
Earth’s atmosphere rings like a giant bell, say researchers – Physics World
Study confirms 200-year-old prediction by Pierre-Simon Laplace The Earth’s entire atmosphere vibrates like a giant bell, with various large-scale resonant waves travelling in both directions around the globe. That is the conclusion of scientists in Japan and the US, who … Continue reading
How Plants Became Meat Eaters
Carnivorous plants capture the imagination because they are so unlike any other plant with their elaborate and sometimes beautiful traps. Seeing as how plants are defined by their ability to create their own food how did some of them take … Continue reading
A taste for humans: How disease-carrying mosquitoes evolved to specialize in biting us – ScienceBlog.com
There are two paths. One leads to the arm of Noah Rose, a postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University. The other leads to a guinea pig. For some species of mosquitoes, their preference for humans reveals something about their evolution … Continue reading
Rare Black Panther Shadows His Leopard Mate in Incredible Shot by Photographer Mithun H
Since 2014, wildlife filmmaker and photographer Mithun H has been pining for sightings of Saya, a black panther that’s been eluding his admirers in the Kabini Forest in India for years. After camping out in the area for six days, the … Continue reading
Digital Sculptures Visualize Chirps of Amazonian Birds in a Responsive Artwork by Andy Thomas
Based on an audio recording from a 2016 trip to the Amazon, Australian artist Andy Thomas interprets birds’ trills, squawks, and coos through an animated series of digital sculptures. An extension of a previous project, “Visual Sounds of the Amazon 2” … Continue reading
DEEP TIME AND THE FAR FUTURE (series of 3 sculptures), 2020 | Amy Karle @ The Smithsonian
biocompatible polyamide, gold, copper, silver, paint Extinction seems so finite, but is it? “Scan data” is not just about capturing images or forms, it can also include capturing biological data such as DNA and include processes such as machine learning … Continue reading
Scientists discover ultra-black fish that absorbs 99.5% of light that hits its skin
These ultra-black fish absorb light so efficiently that even in bright light they appear to be silhouetted. BYAMIT MALEWAR JULY 19, 2020 The ultra-black Pacific blackdragon (Idiacanthus antrostomus). Credit: Karen Osborn, Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian scientists and a team of … Continue reading
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