If you’re at all familiar with contemporary computer graphics, you will likely recognize the name of Adobe, a gold standard of assorted creative software. The multimedia company derives most of its profit from its products with capabilities ranging from photo editing to book design. Among them, the most widely known include Photoshop and Illustrator, two…
Imagine you’re looking at an apple. It sits on the table, looking very fresh and delicious. Naturally, you try to reach for it, but your hand just ends up grabbing air. You’ve just been tricked by a phenomenon in physics known as holography. You might recall seeing them only in sci-fi movies, but holograms…
Recently, I had taken upon a new hobby that some might consider to be rather niche: microscopy! I bought my first compound microscope a couple weeks ago from AmScope and have been playing around with it ever since, imaging all sorts of samples from fibers of tissues to saliva. One thing that struck me particularly…
Everything decays–a truth that encompasses pretty much all material things. However, we as a species have been really good at protecting things that we assign value to. High-end paintings are one example of this. As we know, most paintings done in the Renaissance era were done with fresco and oil. Those mediums are known to…
