Cosmic Song is a work of art and cosmic ray detector embedded in the floor of one of the building entrances at CERN. It lights up with the constant rain of cosmic ray particles from outer space as people stand on the sculpture. The piece is made by the French artist Serge Moro.
Cecropia by Christian Schoeler Maldonado
About the project:
“Unless you clearly see that ugliness Which makes me beatiful, You cannot know that there is a certain Ugliness more beautiful than any beauty. - Il Vertunno dell’ Arcimboldo Don Gregorio Camanini Milano, 1591.”
Inspired by the work of Arcimboldo in the 16th century, this project became an investigation on the relativeness of the beauty. Each photograph shows one individual leaf from the Cecropia tree after one month of it’s fall. They are naturally transformed into organic shapes and sometimes into weird faces and masks or even human figures. Captured in the way they were at the moment, but carefully positioned and lightened to better show it’s individual character.
Susana Soares’s design work is as fascinating as the science behind it:
Scientific research has demonstrated that bees have an extraordinarily acute sense of smell and can be trained to perform health checks by detecting a specific odour in peoples’ breath.
The project consists in a series of alternative diagnostic tools that use bees to diagnose accurately at an early stage of a vast variety of diseases.
Could this revolutionise medicine as we know it?
“Binding of Alzheimer’s Disease drug candidate inositol to β-sheet peptide aggregates. Spatial densities of (left) scyllo- and (right) chiro-inositol molecules bound to model amyloid fibrils are depicted as transparent surfaces in the bottom panels. The detail of stereochemistry-dependent binding modes is shown in the top panels.” Via.
“Insulin-degrading enzyme (IDE) is involved in the clearance of many bioactive peptide substrates, including insulin and amyloid-beta, peptides vital to the development of diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease, respectively. IDE can also rapidly degrade hormones that are held together by intramolecular disulfide bond(s) without their reduction. Furthermore, IDE exhibits a remarkable ability to preferentially degrade structurally similar peptides such as the selective degradation of insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-II and transforming growth factor-alpha (TGF-alpha) over IGF-I and epidermal growth factor, respectively.”
(Source: 3dciencia.com)
Eclipse by Adam David Brown
Brown describes his piece:
Using an ordinary blackboard I layered the scientific notation of Newton, Einstein and Hawking in order to make a black hole.
“The celebrated evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould once called Fritz Goro “the most influential photographer that science journalism (and science in general) has ever known.” LIFE’s science editor, Gerard Piel, praised Goro’s extraordinary gift for capturing “abstractions, of the big ideas from the genetic code to plate tectonics.” Here, LIFE.com presents Goro’s most striking, imaginative, technically accomplished, unsettlingly graphic, and frequently downright beautiful science pictures. Above: Metal samples studied in a glass vacuum, 1946.” Via.
(Source: LIFE)
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Intestine Mop [Fall 2009]
Hope you got an extra pair of surgical gloves, this design comes from within. Deep within your body and soul. We got glands for eyes, and and intestinal expression. The blood squirting out of the heart crown is still blueish purple which means it hasn’t been exposed to oxygen yet, which is great if your like us, and prefer your blood fresh squeezed. This design was created by JP Elliot for our Death Becomes You, Fall 2009 collection.](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lydkdeftfo1qj3t3zo1_500.jpg)
Intestine Mop [Fall 2009]
Hope you got an extra pair of surgical gloves, this design comes from within. Deep within your body and soul. We got glands for eyes, and and intestinal expression. The blood squirting out of the heart crown is still blueish purple which means it hasn’t been exposed to oxygen yet, which is great if your like us, and prefer your blood fresh squeezed. This design was created by JP Elliot for our Death Becomes You, Fall 2009 collection.
