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Fire of Love Captures a Literally Volcanic Romance

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel April 4, 2022April 4, 2022

Married volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft took incredible footage of eruptions. Sara Dosa’s documentary uses it to tell their unusual love story.

Posted inArt

How Artists Have Explored and Understood the Human Body Through Time

Avatar photo by Anne Wallentine March 21, 2022March 21, 2022

The Getty is exhibiting exquisite anatomical illustrations from the 16th century to the present.

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A Sneak Peek of the Getty’s Next Pacific Standard Time, Focusing on Science and Art

by Matt Stromberg February 3, 2021February 3, 2021

The initiative comes at just the right time, when global environmental and health crises and an alarming distrust of science are both growing threats.

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Inventor Nikola Tesla Gets a Suitably Unusual Biopic

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel August 21, 2020November 5, 2020

Tesla is less “the story of Tesla” and more a dialogue with the audience about the infamously eccentric figure.

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What Happened When Eight People Were Sealed Inside a Self-Contained Ecosystem

by Sierra Pettengill May 7, 2020May 7, 2020

Director Matt Wolf talks to Hyperallergic about his new documentary Spaceship Earth, which reconsiders the infamous Biosphere 2 experiment.

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How a ’70s Anthropological Experiment Turned into the “Sex Raft”

by Charles Bramesco June 7, 2019November 4, 2019

In Marcus Lindeen’s documentary The Raft, the subjects of the disastrous study reenact its strange events.

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The Smallest Mollusk Museum Brings Science Education to Unexpected Places

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 2, 2018January 4, 2018

The Smallest Mollusk Museum is the first project from MICRO, a New York-based nonprofit building six-foot-tall museums to share science education in public places.

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Help Solve a Global Crisis Through an Online Puzzle

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 20, 2017August 3, 2021

Since 2008, the Foldit game has engaged the public in solving puzzles for science. Now it’s tackling crop contamination.

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18th-Century Nautical Charts Show Radical Coral Reef Loss in Florida

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 7, 2017

Researchers compared 18th-century nautical charts to contemporary ocean data, revealing a dramatic loss of Florida’s coral reefs.

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Scientists Encode Living DNA with Muybridge’s Galloping Horse Film

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 18, 2017July 18, 2017

Harvard scientists successfully recorded five frames of Eadweard Muybridge’s 1887 galloping horse on living bacteria, and retrieved the images in sequence.

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Matching the Smells of Musty Manuscripts with Chemical Compounds

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 26, 2017October 15, 2022

Researchers at University College London studied the scents of old books to better understand how to identify and protect “heritage smells.”

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University Eliminates Two Scientific Collections to Make Way for Stadium Renovations

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 30, 2017March 30, 2017

Two scientific collections at the University of Louisiana at Monroe (ULM) are being divested to make way for renovations of the campus track stadium.

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