Aquascaping: Building Underwater Worlds
Filmmaker and aquascaper Alex Wenchel guides us through their creative process while building and caring for elaborate living aquariums.
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Feeling Hopeless About Climate Change? Try Playing These Video Games
How do you make a video game about climate change that’s fun to play? The annual Climate Jam competition aims to do just that.
The Never-Ending Flipbook Machines
This Queens-based artist created a way to turn flipbooks of fluttering hummingbirds and butterflies into moving sculptures.
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For The Love Of Volcanoes
“Fire of Love,” a new documentary by director Sara Dosa, charts the career and relationship of volcanologists Katia and Maurice Kraft.
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Processing Postpartum With AI And Synthetic Breast Milk Art
Using synthetic breast milk and a 3D-printed pig uterus, artist Ani Liu processes her postpartum period—and the people that helped her through it.
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The World According to Sound: Listening to WiFi
Audio art that makes us consider the invisible streams of data that permeate our world.
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How Did ‘Prehistoric Planet’ Make Dinosaurs Look So Real?
Paleontologists and producers unveil the behind-the-scenes action of recreating accurate dinosaurs in a new docuseries on Apple TV+.
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Did ‘Soylent Green’s’ Predictions About 2022 Hold Up?
A classic film in the 1970s took on the collapse of civil society in 2022. Almost 50 years later, was it right?
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The Brief And Wondrous Lives Of Cicadas
How art that uses thousands of cicadas is drawing in the insect-shy. An artist and an entomologist use art to foster insect appreciation.
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The World According to Sound: Antiphonal Duets
Some birdsong is so complex and intricate that it’s hard to tell if there’s one bird singing, or two.