Milan Design Week 2025: Google and Lachlan Turczan Present “Making the Invisible Visible”
An interactive exhibition showing how abstract ideas are translated into tangible forms
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An interactive exhibition showing how abstract ideas are translated into tangible forms
An exhibition highlights the late Austrian neon artist's lifelong relationship with light as both a medium and a metaphor
For the first time, scientists have manipulated quantum light by identifying and effecting single photons (aka light particles) in an experiment that draws from Albert Einstein’s 1916 theory of stimulated emission. The …
Fighting book bans with a free electronic library card, an obsidian hand-axe workshop, elephants against climate change and more
Though scientists have long understood the basic mechanism behind auroras (aka the northern lights or southern lights), a new paper published by Nature Communications offers “definitive evidence” on the spectacular physical process …
Staring at a screen, especially for extended periods of time, can come at quite the cost: squinting (a reaction to both impaired vision and bright lights) causes wrinkles and blue light (from …
“Is space truly black?” Tod Lauer, an astronomer at the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab, questions. Now, courtesy of research from NASA’s New Horizons team and their spacecraft (which is approximately 4,000,000,000 miles …
Designed by Light Cognitive for a retail client in Barcelona, the Oculus artificial skylight reproduces the colors, contrast and clarity of the skies above—even though it doesn’t offer a true view of …
The company imagines the future of mobility by building a car for 2035
“Gluttony” (2011) by English jill-of-all-trades Amanda Eliasch is part of her “Peccadilloes” series which also includes neon art representations of the other deadly sins: Lust, Pride, Wrath, Envy, Greed and Sloth. “Gluttony” …