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Leonardo da Vinci’s Earliest Notes on Friction Found in Previously Overlooked Marginalia

by Allison Meier July 27, 2016July 27, 2016

Some scribbles dismissed in the 1920s by the then-director of the Victoria & Albert Museum as “irrelevant notes and diagrams in red chalk” were recently revealed to represent Leonardo da Vinci’s first record of the laws of friction.

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An Artist and Amateur Scientist Who Painted Animal Camouflage and Angels

by Allison Meier July 25, 2016July 26, 2016

Before coming across an unusually calligraphic painting of a mountain, Williams College Museum of Art Curator Kevin Murphy considered the turn-of-the-century artist Abbott Handerson Thayer “a one slide guy,” a man known for portraits of placid angels, who in an art history class might get one mention and then be forgotten.

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A Nuclear Warning Designed to Last 10,000 Years

by Allison Meier July 21, 2016

Consider a wanderer 10,000 years in the future discovering a strange construction of granite thorns in the New Mexico desert, their points weathered by centuries, their shadows stretching at sinister angles.

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Vladimir Nabokov’s Scientific Butterfly Illustrations

by Allison Meier June 30, 2016June 30, 2016

At the end of Vladimir Nabokov’s poem “Pale Fire,” he describes how “White butterflies turn lavender as they / Pass through its shade where gently seems to sway / The phantom of my little daughter’s swing.”

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Airships and Reanimated Corpses from the Pages of Early Science Fiction

by Allison Meier June 1, 2016May 31, 2016

WASHINGTON, DC — Science fiction rose to prominence in the 19th and early 20th centuries, when authors like H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, and Mary Shelley imagined the extraordinary possibilities of advances in technology and exploration.

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The First Photographs of Lightning Crackle with Electric Chaos

by Allison Meier May 25, 2016May 31, 2016

In the 1880s, William Nicholson Jennings set out to prove the diversity and unpredictability of lightning’s path, capturing the electric light with his plate camera.

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The Relics of Victorian Natural History in Eye-Popping Stereoscope

by Allison Meier May 24, 2016May 24, 2016

Natural history storerooms are a bit like drowned Noah’s Arks, with specimens from every realm of the animal world posthumously preserved.

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Butterfly Ovaries and Cockroach Stomachs: Microphotographs as Art

by Carey Dunne May 17, 2016May 17, 2016

If it hadn’t been for Carl Strüwe, a German graphic designer and self-taught photographer, the world may have never come to appreciate the unlikely beauty of a cockroach’s stomach.

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Illustrated Dolphins and Vampire Squid from the Dawn of Ocean Exploration

by Allison Meier April 29, 2016April 29, 2016

In the 16th century, Pierre Belon published one of the earliest scientific depictions of a dolphin: a woodcut with finely hatched skin and pointed teeth.

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An Interactive Map of a Midcentury Botanist’s Amazonian Trips

by Allison Meier April 21, 2016August 3, 2021

Richard Evans Schultes took peyote with the Kiowa in Oklahoma in the 1930s, was the first scientist invited to a hallucinogenic yagé ceremony in the Amazon’s Sibundoy Valley in the 1940s, and inadvertently helped launch the psychedelic era of the 1960s.

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Damien Hirst’s Pickled Animals May Have Leaked Carcinogenic Fumes [UPDATED]

by Claire Voon April 20, 2016July 15, 2016

Damien’s Hirst’s formaldehyde-filled installations don’t just ooze money and pretension — some may also leak potentially dangerous gas.

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An Opera of Love Songs to Science

by Allison Meier April 14, 2016April 14, 2016

“Maybe there’s a physicist sitting right beside you, who can explain this better than we do, but we’re in the business of art, so we’ll make a metaphor,” sings Hai-Ting Chinn in Science Fair: An Opera With Experiments.

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