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Sunday 3 March 2013

THE MOST AMAZING SCIENCE IMAGES OF THE WEEK XXIII


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Insanely Life-Like Sculptures Of Giants And More Amazing Images From This Week
By Colin Lecher and Shaunacy Ferro,
Popular Science, 1 March 2013.

Plus a water-purifying billboard, landscape photos made from landfills, the most twee-tastic gadget ever, and more.

1. Clean Water-Generating Billboard

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Credit: Mayo DraftFCB Peru via Co.Exist

The University of Engineering and Technology in Lima, Peru, commissioned this billboard, which uses reverse osmosis to transform Lima's humid air into drinkable water. It's already made thousands of litres in three months of operation. Refreshing! [More at Co.Exist] [Related Post]

2. Pretty Painted Neurons

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Credit: Greg Dunn via Wired

Artist Greg Dunn paints vivid pictures inspired by neurons. Dunn has a Ph.D in neuroscience, and often sells the paintings to hospitals and scientists. They could probably pass for surreal forests, too, though. [More at Wired]

3. Sculptures Of Giants

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Credit: Ron Mueck via designboom

Artist Ron Mueck created amazing sculptures like this for the Fondation Cartier Pour L’Art Contemporain, an exhibition in Paris. Fun and a little creepy. Kinda hard not to imagine them walking around when no one is looking. [More at designboom]

4. The Scenic Gowanus Canal

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Credit: Bill Miller via Co.Design

New York's Gowanus Canal is gross. Really gross. But also kinda pretty, if you look at it the right way? That's the thesis behind a series by photographer Bill Miller, who snapped beautiful photos like this of the canal. (But seriously just stay away from there, guys. Gross.) [More at Co.Design]

5. 320 Gigapixels Of London

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This is a still from the largest panorama ever. The panorama shows London during the Olympics as seen from the 29th floor of the British Telecommunications tower, and it's made from 320 gigapixels. (The same studio that made it, 360Cities, also made this incredible photo of the Burj Khalifa.) You can check out the interactive version here.

6. Scrap Metal Hummingbird

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Credit: Vik Muniz via Colossal

Artist Vik Muniz creates beautiful works out of garbage. He takes pieces of gold scrap metal and makes animals, like this hummingbird. [More at Colossal]

7. Snow Plough

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Credit: Collections Canada via Retronaut

Retronaut unearthed this early design for a "centrifugal" snow plough. Looks effective, but also a little scary?

8. Landscapes/Landfills

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Credit: Yao Lu via Colossal

Beautiful, huh? Artist Yao Lu takes these picturesque photos of Chinese landscapes. Well, "takes" these photos is misleading: they're actually composed of several photos of landfills and other urban sights. Surprise! [More at Colossal]

9. Cardboard Plotter

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Credit: Niklas Roy

This is the most twee-tastic invention ever. Made from cardboard connected with super glue, adhesive tape, and tie wraps, it plots geometric shapes along x and y axes, so a user can look at a set of instructions and draw something from the coordinates. [More at Niklas Roy]

10. Cave Painting Visitors Centre

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Architecture and design firms Snøhetta, Duncan Lewis, and Casson Mann made this winning proposal for a visitors centre at the cave paintings in Lascaux, France. It's a little cave-like itself (a good thing!).

[Source: Popular Science. Edited.]


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