Seeing Science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, is a yearlong online project that explores photography’s role in defining, promoting, and furthering science.
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An Affordable Microscope that Folds Like Origami
The Foldscope is a $1 microscope made from waterproof paper that’s designed to decrease the barrier of entry to scientific exploration.
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The Morgan Marks the Centennial of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity
A century has passed since Albert Einstein published his general theory of relativity, which at its core demonstrates that space and time are connected, and both involved in gravity.
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Terrible Taxidermy from When Exotic Animals Were Unknown in the West
Exotic animal visitors to Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries were more frequently dead than alive.
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Leonardo da Vinci’s Earliest Notes on Friction Found in Previously Overlooked Marginalia
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.
Posted inBooks
Vladimir Nabokov’s Scientific Butterfly Illustrations
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
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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Century-Old Glass Photographic Plate Reveals Earliest Evidence of an Exoplanet
The Carnegie Institution for Science announced this week that one researcher’s dive into a collection of glass photographic plates turned up an unexpected image from 1917 that indicates the presence of an exoplanetary system.
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An Opera of Love Songs to Science
“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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122-Foot Dinosaur Makes Its Colossal Debut at the American Museum of Natural History
A cast of one of the largest dinosaurs to walk the Earth some 100 million years ago is being unveiled this week at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
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The World’s Oldest Tattoos Are on the Weathered Skin of an Alpine Ice Mummy
When hikers in the Alps stumbled upon the mummy known as Ötzi the Iceman along the Austrian–Italian border in 1991, the body was so well preserved that they feared they’d discovered the corpse of a fellow mountaineer.
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The Rise of the 20th-Century Yearbook Smile
With their standard formats and widespread availability, high school yearbooks represent a historical data set of 20th-century style. They also capture how our tendency to smile in photographs has intensified over time.