What Does A Bee Look Like When It’s Magnified 3000 Times?
Photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher uses a powerful microscope to capture all of a bee’s microscopic structures and textures in stunning detail
Macro or Micro? Test Your Sense of Scale
A geographer and a biologist at Salem State University team up to curate a new exhibition, featuring confounding views from both satellites and microscopes
What Would a Cross Between a Polar Bear and a Grizzly Really Look Like?
As climate changes and Arctic sea ice melts, species shift habitats and may interbreed. Lamm digitally manipulates photographs to imagine these hybrids
Sonic Bloom! A New Solar-Powered Sculpture
Dan Corson’s latest installation in Seattle—flower sculptures that light up at night—show that solar energy is viable even in the cloudy Pacific Northwest
The Gorgeous Shapes of Sea Butterflies
Cornelia Kavanagh’s sculptures magnify tiny sea butterflies—ocean acidification’s unlikely mascots—hundreds of times
Aerial Views of Our Water World
In a new book, documentary and exhibition, photographer Edward Burtynsky looks at humans’ dramatic relationship with water
Sharks Made Out of Golf Bags? A Look at the Big Fish in Contemporary Art
Intrigued by the powerful hunters, artists have made tiger sharks, great whites and hammerheads the subjects of sculpture
Toxic Runoff Yellow and Other Paint Colors Sourced From Polluted Streams
An engineer and an artist at Ohio University team up to create paints made of sludge extracted from streams near abandoned coal mines
The End of the World Might Just Look Like This
Artist Ron Miller presents several scenarios—most of them scientifically plausible—of landscapes imperiled and of Earth meeting its demise
It’s a Green, Green, Green, Green World
NASA and NOAA release satellite images of Earth and all its vegetation
This Incredible Art Installation Makes It Rain, Everywhere But On You
“Rain Room,” on display at MoMA, is an indoor downpour that detects the presence of people and adjusts to keep them dry
Mapping the Smells of New York, Amsterdam and Paris, Block by Block
Designer and cartographer Kate McLean charts the sweet scents and pungent odors that fill a city’s olfactory landscape
Is a Lack of Water to Blame for the Conflict in Syria?
A 2006 drought pushed Syrian farmers to migrate to urban centers, setting the stage for massive uprisings
Never Heard of Doggerland? Blame Climate Change From Millennia Ago
Rising waters have forced populations to relocate since the dawn of early man
The Strange Beauty of David Maisel’s Aerial Photographs
A new book shows how the photographer creates startling images of open-pit mines, evaporation ponds and other sites of environmental degradation
Transforming Raw Scientific Data Into Sculpture and Song
Artist Nathalie Miebach uses meteorological data to create 3D woven works of art and playable musical scores
In 1989, ‘Life’ Magazine Said Goodbye To Video Stores, Mailmen and Pennies…
In 1989, “Life” magazine predicted that, by the year 2000, many staples of modern American life might find themselves on the scrapheap of history
The Secrets of Earth’s History May Be in Its Caves
An underground scientist is pioneering a new way to learn what the climate was like thousands of years ago
Seven Must-See Art-Meets-Science Exhibitions in 2013
Preview some of the top-notch shows—on anatomy, bioluminescence, water tanks and more—slated for the next year
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