cancerninja:

less than three

more than infinity

staceythinx:

Drawings by Aja Johnson available in her microMACRO Etsy store.

Johnson on her work:

I am mostly inspired by repetition in nature, and biology in general. I am fascinated by the visuals in science textbooks; I spend a lot of time at my local library pouring over them searching for inspiration.

staceythinx:

Symmetrium by Niko Luoma

Luoma on his work:

My material is light. The work focuses on energy rather than matter. My work is about the process as much as about the result.

My process combines systems of calculation and change. I find my inspiration in mathematics and geometry; symmetry and chaos, both imagined and found in nature…

In my recent “symmetrium” series, time reveals the process through thousands of exposures on a single negative.

Read more…

motionaday:

resolve

Wednesday : murAta Yuzi

mothernaturenetwork:

Crystal ‘flowers’ bloom in Harvard nanotech lab

Harvard researchers have found a way to shape microscopic crystals into complex and often beautiful structures.

mothernaturenetwork:

9 female trailblazers in science

Meet some the women who are changing the face of modern science.

smarterplanet:

Google and NASA Launch Quantum Computing AI Lab

Quantum computing took a giant leap forward on the world stage today as NASA and Google, in partnership with a consortium of universities, launched an initiative to investigate how the technology might lead to breakthroughs in artificial intelligence.

The new Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab will employ what may be the most advanced commercially available quantum computer, the D-Wave Two, which a recent study confirmed was much faster than conventional machines at defeating specific problems. The machine will be installed at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Facility at the Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley and is expected to be available for government, industrial, and university research later this year.

Google believes quantum computing might help it improve its web search and speech recognition technology. University researchers might use it to devise better models of disease and climate, among many other possibilities. As for NASA, “computers play a much bigger role within NASA missions than most people realize,” says quantum computing expert Colin Williams, director of business development and strategic partnerships at D-Wave.

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arpeggia:

Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt) - Reticulárea, 1969-1980s, aluminum and stainless steel wire

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crookedindifference:

First Solar Eclipse Photograph

Berkowski made the first solar eclipse photograph on July 28, 1851, also using the daguerrotype process, at the Royal Observatory in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kalinigrad in Russia). Berkowski, a local daguerrotypist whose first name was never published, observed at the Royal Observatory. A small 6-cm refracting telescope was attached to the 15.8-cm Fraunhofer heliometer and a 84-second exposure was taken shortly after the beginning of totality.