未曾绽放的花
Yeonjeong Jang 谈静止、转译，以及生命与图像之间不断变化的边界 Yeonjeong Jang. Photo courtesy of Yeonjeong Jang Yeonjeong Jang 谈静止、转译，…
The Afterimage of a Flower That Never Grew
Digital Sublime Flora Yeonjeong Jang. Photo courtesy of Yeonjeong Jang Yeonjeong Jang on stillness, translation, and the shifting boundaries between life and image Editor’s Note Yeonjeong Jang’s Digital Sublime Flora presents forms that look, at first glance, like botanical studies: petals, stems, membranes, the familiar architecture of plant life. Look longer, and something else emerges.
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循环与沉默
从分子到文明 西莉亚·布兰科博士。照片由 Celia Blanco 提供 天体生物学家西莉亚·布兰科谈生命如何开始、文明如何延续，以及一个沉默的银河系为何未必空无一物 编者按 西莉亚·布兰科博士（Celia Blanco…
The Loop and the Silence
The Loop and the Silence Dr. Celia Blanco. Photo courtesy of Celia Blanco Astrobiologist Celia Blanco on how life begins, how civilizations last, and why a quiet galaxy may not be an empty one Editor’s Note Celia Blanco’s research reaches across two distant scales in the story of life. She asks how the first molecules
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Cold Made From Heat
Cold Made From Heat Jingyuan Xu. Photo courtesy of Jingyuan Xu Yi-Ting Hsiau. Photo courtesy of Yi-Ting Hsiau Jingyuan Xu and Yi-Ting Hsiau on a metal that moves when warmed, cools when released, and a refrigerator whose engine is a strip of the same metal Editor’s Note Most refrigerators and air conditioners on Earth work
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热制造出的冷
用热制造冷 徐静远（Jingyuan Xu）。图片由徐静远提供 蕭翊庭（Yi-Ting Hsiau）。图片由蕭翊庭提供 徐静远（Jingyuan Xu）与蕭翊庭（Yi-Ting Hsiau）谈一种受热时产生运动、释放时降…
问题究竟出在哪里？
问题究竟出在哪里？ 肖像。图片提供：Pedro Barrios Hita，HHU Pedro Barrios Hita 谈用实数重新表述量子力学时，究竟会发生什么 编者按 接触过复数的人都知道，一个复数可以用两个实数来表…
Where’s the Catch?
Where’s the Catch? Portrait. Credit: Pedro Barrios Hita, HHU Pedro Barrios Hita on what really happens when you try to write quantum mechanics with real numbers Editor’s Note Anyone familiar with complex numbers knows they can be described using two real numbers. The extra ingredient is the imaginary unit, i, defined by i² = −1.
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来自星际的第一种糖
星际之间的第一种糖 Izaskun Jiménez-Serra 博士在耶韦斯天文台 40 米射电望远镜前。图片提供：西班牙瓜达拉哈拉耶韦斯天文台 Izaskun Jiménez-Serra 讲述在银河系中心附近发现一种脆…
The First Sugar Between the Stars
The First Sugar Between the Stars Dr. Izaskun Jiménez-Serra at the Yebes 40m telescope. Image credit: Yebes Observatory (Guadalajara, Spain) Izaskun Jiménez-Serra on finding a fragile molecule near the heart of the galaxy, and what it may have carried to the early Earth Editor’s Note Before stars were born, before the Sun ignited, before planets
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