"The Scale of the Universe," created by Cary Huang and ported to Pixi.js by Matthew Martori. Pick your preferred language and use the scroll bar to move from "Planck Length" to the entire "Observable Universe" - 62 orders of magnitude. You move at your own pace and can stop at objects on the various levels to explore them. Brilliant!
"A Trillion Rogue Planets and Not One Sun to Shine on Them" by Corey S. Powell, IEEE Spectrum, 16 July 2024: "We have a huge population of low-mass, free-floating planets in the Milky Way... They seem to be really common. Current estimates are that there may be seven such planets per every star."
Creating matter from light - "Out Of Pure Light, Physicists Create Particles Of Matter," University of Rochester press release, via Science Daily, 18 September 1997.
"Generating matter and antimatter from the vacuum," press release from the University of Michigan (via PhysOrg.com, 8 December 2010): "...scientists and engineers have developed new equations that show how a high-energy electron beam combined with an intense laser pulse could rip apart a vacuum into its fundamental matter and antimatter components, and set off a cascade of events that generates additional pairs of particles and antiparticles. 'We can now calculate how, from a single electron, several hundred particles can be produced...'"
"Quantum physicist Pasi Lähteenäki at Aalto University in Finland and his colleagues reveal that by varying the speed at which light can travel, they can make light appear from nothing." "Something from Nothing? A Vacuum Can Yield Flashes of Light," by Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, 12 February 2013.
"New Camouflage Material Is a Color-Change Artist," by Scott Simon, National Public Radio, 23 August 2014: "Researchers say they've produced octopus-inspired materials that can sense color and change accordingly."
"Becoming" by Jan van Ijken - microphotographic video of a newt developing from a single cell to a complete individual ready to hatch.
Synthetic biology: scientists build a virus from its published DNA base-pair sequence ("Researchers Create Virus in Record Time" by Rick Weiss, Washington Post, 14 November 2003)
"Neanderthal DNA" - articles, videos and links compiled by Nature magazine.
"A Critical Review of Classical Bouncing Cosmologies" by Diana Battefeld and Patrick Peter (December 2014). Instead of a burst of spatial inflation prior to the Big Bang, some scientists propose a cycle in which a contracting universe bounces into an expanding universe.
"An Ancient Greek Computer" - from Scientific American, June 1959, by Derek J. de Solla Price (one of my teachers at Yale).
"Counterfactual Computation" by Graeme Mitchison and Richard Jozsa, Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, A457 (2001) pages 1175-1194: "Counterfactual computation is a process by which the result of the computation may be learnt without actually running the computer..."
"An experimental test of non-local realism," by Simon Gröblacher et al., Nature, 446, pages 871–875 (2007): "giving up the concept of locality is not sufficient to be consistent with quantum experiments, unless certain intuitive features of realism are abandoned."
Fukt - a Berlin- and Oslo-based magazine that focuses on contemporary drawing. It's edited by Björn Hegardt and designed by Ariane Spanier. Published once a year.
a node for Jack Burnham - my attempt to provide access to the writing and ideas of this great theorist.
Voice of the Shuttle - a database of art history links maintained by Alan Liu and the English Department at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Artnet's wonderful online magazine edited by Walter Robinson is no more, but its ghost survives as Artnet News.
Lev Manovich is one of the few writers on contemporary art whose notions about what is worth writing about today is spot on.
"'Exact uncertainty' brought to quantum world," by Eugenie Samuel, New Scientist, 27 April 2002: "...The result is an expression that looks like Heisenberg's original relation, but gives the exact uncertainty in the measurements of position and momentum. [Michael] Hall says it is an equation rather than an inequality, which is 'a far stronger relation'. So strong, in fact, that in a paper published this month in Journal of Physics A, Hall and Marcel Reginatto of the Physical-Technical Institute in Braunschweig, Germany, have managed to derive the basics of quantum mechanics from it, including the Schrödinger equation that describes the behaviour of quantum-mechanical wave functions..."
"The origin of life and the hidden role of quantum criticality," The Physics arXiv Blog at Medium.com, 6 March 2015: "most biomolecules are quantum critical conductors; their electronic properties are precisely tuned to the transition point between a metal and an insulator... These findings suggest an entirely new and universal mechanism of conductance in biology very different from the one used in electrical circuits..."
"The Known Universe" - a zoom from the Himalayas out to the edge of the known universe and back again, created by the American Museum of Natural History and the Rubin Museum of Art.
"Somebody's Listening" -- by Duncan Campbell, with links to more texts about Echelon and other governmental systems for intercepting private communications.
