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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 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. 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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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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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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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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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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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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“A Whale of a Tale” as Told by Ted Cheeseman
Adelina 艾德琳
September 5, 2018
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