-Amsterdam-based photographer Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk has created a series titled The Andromeda Strain that focuses more on the notion of discovery than the place itself. The images conjure up thoughts of a space or time perhaps untouched or undiscovered by humans. These constructed images, with no Photoshop, of everyday objects refer to biological, scientific, or […]

The Sociable Weaver or Social Weaver (Philetairus socius) is a species of bird in the Ploceidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Philetairus. It is found in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa.

-article via fractal ontology. Process In Mechanism and Biological Explanation [Maturana 1970], Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela argue that machines and biological forms are very closely related — so closely, in fact, that biologists can reasonably claim living systems are machines. This is not meant merely as a pedagogical metaphor, but rather as a rigorous […]

Scanning electron micrograph of E. coli bacteria. A rapidly growing colony can be programmed to act as a hugely powerful parallel computer. Photograph: Getty Computers are evolving – literally. While the tech world argues netbooks vs notebooks, synthetic biologists are leaving traditional computers behind altogether. A team of US scientists have engineered bacteria that could […]

Produced with a “bottom-up” self-assembly technique, the new structure takes advantage of nanotechnology to fine-tune its materials properties, addressing the shortcomings of earlier silicon-based battery anodes. The simple, low-cost fabrication technique was designed to be easily scaled up and compatible with existing battery manufacturing. Details of the new self-assembly approach were published online in the […]

Lightweight material, Ethylene tetrafluoroethylene, or ETFE, is proposed as the membrane which will encapsulate Houston in a geodesic dome. This material has already been used in the Beijing Olympic Stadium and in the Eden Project. This material shows the possibility to move away from the hard lined modernist glazing that we now see in the […]

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