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Two children run through a swirl of butterflies in Angela Mia’s bronze sculpture Where Butterflies Lead
Where Butterflies Lead. Two children run laughing through a swirl of butterflies, bronze. Photo: Jafe Parsons
Ceramics, Glass, Pottery & Clay Arts Angela Mia: Oh, There You Are
Angela Mia on clay, love stories, and the courage not to make herself smaller
Angela Mia began sculpting inside a pine tree. Outside her childhood home in Clarion, Pennsylvania, her mother cut away the lowest branches of a large pine so that the upper ones fell to the ground like a green wall. In the little room inside, a child found clay and made small creatures she was sure...
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I couldn’t confirm the original solar illustration’s URL, so the left card uses the article’s BiSON photograph with a matching caption.
Birmingham Solar-Oscillations Network observing station in Narrabri, Australia
The Birmingham Solar-Oscillations Network observing station in Narrabri, Australia.
Science Listening to the Sun
Forty years of sound reveal the Sun’s hidden layers
Every eleven years or so, the Sun’s activity waxes and wanes. For four centuries, people have measured that rhythm by counting sunspots, the dark patches...
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Visitors viewing reconstructed memory images at The Lost Sense exhibition
The Lost Sense Experience, Berlin. © Domestic Data Streamers
Community True to a Person
Pau Aleikum Garcia on images shaped by memory, not reality
Many of us carry memories that no camera ever recorded: a grandmother’s kitchen, a street that no longer exists, a face from a childhood that left no...
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Underground waterfall Burren karst, Ireland © Max Wisshak

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Illustration of early Earth and environments where life’s chemistry could have begun
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The Loop and the Silence
Celia Blanco on life in a quiet galaxy
Celia Blanco's research reaches across two distant scales in the story of life. She asks how the firstt...
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Rehearsing the Future Under Glass
Testing Tomorrow’s Earth
In September 1991, eight people walked through an airlock in the Arizona desert and sealed...
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Cold Made From Heat
Metal that cools as it flexes
Most refrigerators and air conditioners on Earth work much the same way they did a century ago. A...
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