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…
The Miracle of Sight There is zero doubt that Leonardo da Vinci was the paragon of achievement. By the end of his 67 year-long life during the peak of the Renaissance, his name was well recognized from Milan to France. In his life, he accomplished what many could have only wished to with several lifetimes….
Have you ever wondered how a firefly glowed in the dark? What about anglerfish—how do they have their own light bulbs in the water? The answer relies on a biological phenomenon known as bioluminescence. In short, bioluminescence is an adaptation where an organism interacts with the environment to undergo chemical reactions that result in light…
X-Ray Crystallography: What is it? When you think of the word X-ray, you probably imagine pictures of bones or lead aprons. The truth is, X-rays are just a form of electromagnetic radiation with a very short wavelength. The discovery of X-rays just before the 1900s has given it the opportunity to branch out into a…
What color is the dress? Chances are, you’ve probably stumbled upon this dress dozens of times before already. It’s an optical illusion that specifically targets your eyes’ ability to perceive color, and they can be really trippy. Take the infamous dress for example. While some see it as gold and white, others see blue and…
If you love art and science (of course you do—you’re on our website!) and are looking for a job, a good path to go down might be scientific illustration. As a scientific illustrator, you collaborate with various companies to create science-related graphics. Ever wanted to have your art be displayed in a scientific magazine as…
As a child, I remember seeing the quasi-children’s movie Coraline and being utterly horrified. Its unique disturbing nature, to me, comes from the copious amount of motifs and references to insects & bugs. At the beginning of the movie, Coraline smashes a bunch of bugs at her apartment; after she enters the Other World, she…
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…
