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Photo.Synthetica curtain installation at Dublin Castle
Photo.Synthetica, curtain installation, Dublin Castle, Image credit: © Photo Synth Etica
Design Architecture That Breathes
Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto on living systems, nonhuman intelligence, and the city as an ecosystem
In 2005, when Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto founded ecoLogicStudio in London, the idea that a building might breathe, metabolise, or think was largely confined to biology textbooks and speculative fiction. Architecture was still overwhelmingly in the business of making static objects: controlled, finished, inert. Biology, by contrast, was in the business of something else entirely — adaptation, emergence, the patient negotiation of conditions that no single agent could fully control.
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Metamorphosis in Motion
Metamorphosis in Motion. Image: © Nathalie Krag
Architecture Metamorphosis in Motion

How Lina Ghotmeh filled a Baroque courtyard with memory, movement, and pink

There is a particular challenge in designing for a space that already knows what it is. The Cortile d'Onore of Palazzo Litta in Milan does not yield easily to new...

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The Outside-In Protocol
Muscle fibres releasing proteins toward a hippocampal neuron. Image: Our Narratives
Science The Outside-In Protocol

How a protein released by exercising muscle may hold the key to protecting the aging brain

For nearly a century, the medical community has viewed the human body as a collection of specialized, somewhat isolated departments...

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Kangaroo Tail, Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, South Australia, 2025

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The Synchronized Clock
Science
The Synchronized Clock
How trillions of cells keep time together
How trillions of cells keep time together, and what happens when the body's hidden clocks fall out of sync...
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The Architecture of Intelligence
Science
The Architecture of Intelligence
Rethinking General Intelligence
Why do people who excel in one cognitive domain tend to excel in all of them? For over a century, researchers sought a single neural engine...
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The Molecule That Did Not Change
Science
The Molecule That Did Not Change
Bringing an Ancient Enzyme Back to Life
Scientists reconstruct a primordial enzyme and insert it into a living bacterium, confirming molecular signatures in the rock record match long-held geological assumptions.
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