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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Bioethics, Biology, Genetics, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 01 26th, 2012 | No Comments

Project Runway: Spider Edition

Golden orbweaver spiders from Madagascar secrete the only spider silk that is gold in color, not white. And now a five-year project to create a cape is finished and on display at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. This is the first spider silk textile made since the late 19th Century.Nicholas...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 12 30th, 2011 | No Comments

STEM to STEAM: The Scientific Case for Art

For many, 2011 was the year of Steve Jobs. His bright, creative light went dark. His legacy of innovation and creativity lives on in the products of Apple and the people who work there. But his reach extends much further. Political scientists, business gurus and pop culture junkies are still calculating...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, SciArt, Scientainment on 12 9th, 2011 | 4 Comments

Tattoos Etch Body of Science

Tattoos are a time-honored yet painful way to mark a significant moment in one’s life. They can capture the essence of who you are and permanently etch that onto your skin. Scientists are one tribe that shows their passion for their work by marking it on their bodies. For years, science writer...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Inventions, Physics and Chemistry, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 11 10th, 2011 | No Comments

Bright Ideas Drove Invention of Mundane Things

Right now Steve Jobs is being remembered as the man who made technology personal and pleasing. But as time passes the iPod, iPhone and iPad will become part of our lives, no longer remarkable. This is the same journey that other inventions took, from bright, new concept to items in everyday use.iPad,...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Environment, Greenovation, Inventions, SciArt, Scientainment, Solar, Video on 10 28th, 2011 | No Comments

Artist to Build a Glacier in the Desert

For artist Ap Verheggen there is a fine line between art and experiment. Last year the Dutch artist placed two sculptures on icebergs and intends for them to float off the coast of Greenland, sending a message about how climate change is also changing culture. That was a project he called cool(E)motion....

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Backyard Science, Biology, Environment, Evolution, Greenovation, Inventions, Math, Plants, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 10 21st, 2011 | No Comments

Nature by Numbers

Nature has been doing things for billions of years without issue. Over time plants and animals have refined the way they live to reflect the optimal situation given the conditions they have to endure. This is the nature of evolution. The fittest survive but what fit means to nature may be different...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Nanotechnology, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 10 10th, 2011 | 3 Comments

NanoArt Shows Beauty at Smallest Level

Every artist must draw inspiration from someplace. For Christian Orfescu that inspiration is found at his day job, working as a materials scientist for Caleb Technology, a Califorina-based company where he uses nanotechnology to design better lithium batteries. Behold, the NanoArt. #gallery-2...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Physics and Chemistry, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 09 30th, 2011 | No Comments

Performance Art Demonstrates Origin of Life

Science and art collide (sometimes literally) in Group Intelligence, a new flash mob performance art piece that asks the question, “How did life begin?” Out of Hand Theater in Atlanta combined forces with the NASA/NSF Center for Chemical Evolution to explore the formation of molecules. But...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Biotechnology, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 09 16th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Science Inspired Art: The Movement

WARNING: this video is 41 minutes, so grab a cup of coffee and settle in for an inspiring talk. Generally modern art exhibits have provocative and pithy titles that don’t say much. Arthur Miller decided his new GV Gallery exhibit in London would take the opposite approach. He wanted to be explicit...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate Change, Politics, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 09 9th, 2011 | 2 Comments

Leaving da Vinci’s Mark in the Melting Arctic

Artist John Quigley is known for his big creations. He likes the scale of decorating a field by scattering people to form shapes. He first gained notoriety during the World Trade Organization meetings and protests in Seattle where he photographed demonstrators marching between skyscrapers hand in hand....

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Genetics, SciArt, Scientainment on 09 2nd, 2011 | No Comments

The DNA of Art

Wyllie O Hagan is a pair of visual artists working in different media, from silkscreen paintings to film. They became fascinated by Rosalind Franklin, the woman who captured the first x-ray image of DNA, which immediately led to James Watson and Francis Crick’s discovery of the structure of DNA...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Backyard Science, Nanotechnology, Physics and Chemistry, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 08 12th, 2011 | No Comments

Ferrofluid Sculpture

Ferrofluid Morpho Towers from Jason Peters on Vimeo. Morpho Towers–Two Standing Spirals is a 2007 installation that consists of two ferrofluid sculptures that moves synthetically to music. The two iron spiral towers stand on a large plate holding ferrofluid, also known as liquid magnets. When...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Biology, Math, SciArt, Scientainment, Space, Video on 08 5th, 2011 | No Comments

Charles and Ray Eames Power of Creativity

In 1978, Charles and Ray Eames, the husband and wife duo who are known for their mid 20th Century furniture, movie making and other design projects, decided to map the visible world. Their film, Powers of Ten showed the perspective of moving one order of magnitude every ten seconds. Beginning with a...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in SciArt, Science & Religion, Scientainment, Space, Video on 07 29th, 2011 | No Comments

Science in the Art House

Most movies have a beginning, middle and an end. But how can a movie maker portray the vast scope of a story when it starts at the beginning of the universe and proceeds out of order to the present and then to an unknowable future? That’s the difficult task that acclaimed director Terrence Malik...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in SciArt, Scientainment, Space, Video on 07 15th, 2011 | No Comments

50 Years of NASA Art

NASA | ART 50 Years of Exploration – SpacePod 2011.06.20 from Spacevidcast on Vimeo. From Rockwell to Rauschenberg, NASA has had a long tradition of inviting artists to give their perspective on the agency’s work through different forms of art. Painting, textile, sculpture, music and poetry...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Engineering, Nanotechnology, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 07 8th, 2011 | No Comments

Science + Art: The World up Close

Common, everyday things, from construction material to household items or even insects, look remarkably different up close. And the up close that a new art exhibition has in mind is mind-boggling. Using a high-powered scanning electron microscope a scientist and a graphic designer combined forces...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Biology, Discoveries, Geology, Marine Science, Museum, Physics and Chemistry, SciArt, Scientainment, Space, Video on 07 1st, 2011 | No Comments

Beauty of Science

When Alex de Voogt couldn’t get a crumbling sheath to release an early 20th Century Egyptian knife, he turned to a cutting-edge, high resolution, computed tomography (CT) scanner for help. Using the advanced x-ray technology he was able to see inside the knife covering and reveal writing on the...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Featured Articles, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 06 24th, 2011 | No Comments

Crowdsourcing Humanity

Now that we’ve been living in the Information Age for over 50 years, it’s safe to say we’ve become quite proficient at gathering data. We’ve built elaborate systems to collect and transmit data. We’ve also built elaborate systems to protect and encrypt personal information...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Computer Science, Engineering, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 06 3rd, 2011 | No Comments

Vivid Light Show Illuminates Sydney

Sydney’s iconic Customs House, Museum of Contemporary Art and Opera House are being given a psychedelic makeovers as part of the city’s annual festival of light, music and ideas. To weather the winter doldrums of the Southern Hemisphere, Sydney, Australia came up with a bright idea —...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Engineering, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 05 13th, 2011 | No Comments

Robot Orchestra Makes Music

Students at the California Institute of the Arts have built an orchestra of interactive musical robots. Musicians use specialized computer programs to play the robotic instruments. The Associated Press sat in on a rehearsal for the group’s May 12 concert. Tammy, BreakBot, NotomotoN, GlockenBot...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Backyard Science, Citizen science, SciArt, Scientainment, Space, Video on 05 12th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Shooting Stars

Seattle marketing director Nick Risinger quit his job to travel the world in search of the perfect picture of the night sky. The 29-year-old amateur astronomer took a year and traveled from the southwestern U.S. to South Africa, taking thousands of digital color photos of all billions of stars in both...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Citizen science, Computer Science, Engineering, Inventions, Podcast, SciArt, Video on 03 28th, 2011 | No Comments

Building Dreams from Scratch

A new membership-based, do-it-yourself fabrication and manufacturing space allows engineers and inventors to work on their gadgets using the latest in high-tech equipment. Tech Shop has opened facilities in California with plans to expand across the country. It’s like your father’s workshop...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Engineering, Podcast, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 03 23rd, 2011 | No Comments

Robots Debut in New Opera

Call them operabots. In a marriage of music and media, a team at the MIT Media Lab has infused an opera with robotic technology. In Death and the Powers, a new opera by Media Lab professor Tod Machover, the main character wishes to leave the physical world, but remain there digitally. He downloads himself...

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