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Crystal Hearts and Translucent Tongues Shaped Into Sculptural Works by Debra Baxter
Santa Fe-based sculptor and jewelry designer Debra Baxter combines glass, bronze, crystal, wood, and found objects to create ghostly sculptures of human forms. In one piece titled “Cross My Heart” (2019), a purple heart sits on top of a rough … Continue reading
Skywatching Spider Photobombs Perseid Meteor Shower
How do you spot a “shooting star”? Well, you don’t look for eight legs; that’s for sure. But a NASA camera designed to photograph meteors spotted more than it bargained for during the Perseid meteor shower, when a curious spider … Continue reading
Coming to a farm near you: The humble microbe boosting Europe’s food industry
By: Alex Whiting Farmers who want to produce bigger chickens, fewer greenhouse gas-filled cow burps or healthier animals are increasingly able to turn to one tiny source: microbes. The microbes… Source: Coming to a farm near you: The humble microbe … Continue reading
World Breastfeeding Week
SABC Digital News Published on 5 Aug 2014 The 1st until the 7th of August is World Breastfeeding week! This year’s theme is breastfeeding: A winning Goal -For Life. It asserts the importance of increasing and sustaining the protection, promotion … Continue reading
Vorticity 2 (4K)
Two years in the making. I made the tough decision last year to save everything I shot that spring and combine it with whatever storms I captured in 2019 and make the best possible time-lapse film I could. It was … Continue reading
Bats use leaves as mirrors to find prey in the dark – ScienceBlog.com
On moonless nights in a tropical forest, bats slice through the inky darkness, snatching up insects resting silently on leaves–a seemingly impossible feat. New experiments at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) show that by changing their approach angle, the echolocating … Continue reading
Optical Illusion Makes People See Color When They Look at B&W Photos
When “digital media toolsmith” Øyvind Kolås posted his latest visual experiment to Patreon, little did he know that he’d get the internet buzzing. Kolås seemingly transformed a black and white photograph into full color with a simple trick to fool … Continue reading
Lightning in Super Slow Motion
Robert Patterson Published on 26 Mar 2010 A clip from Discovery Channel’s “Raging Planet” on the subject of lightning. If you find lightning a facinating and beautiful force, then check this clip out. The camera technology has gotten to where … Continue reading
Wild Creatures Emerge From Thrown Sand in Photographs by Claire Droppert
Netherlands-based photographer Claire Droppert (previously) has created a new series of images that depict the silhouettes of animals appearing in clumps of thrown Holland beach sand. Dolphins, snakes, lizards, and other animals in the Sand Creatures IIcollection defy gravity and float through … Continue reading
See How Termites Inspired a Building That Can Cool Itself | Decoder
National Geographic Published on 29 May 2018 How do you cool a building without air conditioning? Using an approach called biomimicry, see how architect Mick Pearce harnessed the ingenuity of termites to design a natural cooling system for the largest … Continue reading
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