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Science
What Time Is Made Of
An experiment suggests that time may not be fundamental, but something that emerges from within
Time is one of the most familiar aspects of human experience and one of the least understood in physics. We feel it passing. We measure it constantly. And yet some of the most rigorous theories of the universe suggest it may not exist at a fundamental level at all. The Wheeler-DeWitt equation, proposed in the 1960s, describes the universe as a single, static quantum state with no built-in time parameter. In this picture, there is no external clock ticking in the background. The experience...
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Cassini flying through the plume of Enceladus · Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Science
The Pattern Life Leaves Behind
The search for life beyond Earth is looking in a new place: the statistical order hidden in molecules
For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has rested on a deceptively simple premise: find the right molecules. Amino acids. Fatty acids. The chemical signatures of biology...
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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...
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Photography
When Fog Became a Question
A Conversation with Stefano Balma
Stefano Balma’s journey into photography began with a bank of fog. Not as a metaphor, but as a visceral encounter. One day, in the forests above Genoa, a...
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Architecture
Metamorphosis in Motion
Reimagining a Baroque Courtyard
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 interpretations.
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Science
The Synchronized Clock
How trillions of cells keep time together
Traditional models describe aging as a tissue-specific process driven by local damage accumulation. In such models, organs decline largely independently, with limited coordination across systems.
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Natural Wonders of USA Portrayed by Frank Sirona
Adelina 艾德琳
March 4, 2020
Photography by Evgeny Kurkin, Performer in “Amaluna”
Adelina 艾德琳
February 1, 2020
2019 Nikon Small World Top Winner, Andrei Savitsky
Adelina 艾德琳
October 22, 2019
Award-Winning Micrographist, Dr. Håkan Kvarnström
Adelina 艾德琳
August 21, 2019
Insects and Many More by Guilhem Duvot
Adelina 艾德琳
June 20, 2019
M. K. Shisler – Preserver of the Nature Beauty
Adelina 艾德琳
May 21, 2019
Through the Lens by Scott Davis
Adelina 艾德琳
March 12, 2019
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Construction of a Robotic Arm by T. Migimatsu – Stanford Ph.D. Student
Adelina 艾德琳
September 29, 2018
“A Whale of a Tale” as Told by Ted Cheeseman
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