PHOTODOC: A Real Bug’s Life – in Australia
National Geographic’s series ‘A Real Bug’s Life’ returns on January 15th to Disney+ for a second season, this time including an episode dedicated to our unique Australian insect life. The production team shared…
INTERVIEW: Talking telescopes with the Director of new IMAX movie ‘Deep Sky’
Deep Sky is directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn: a new film which uses the scale of giant IMAX screens to take audiences on a journey to the beginning of time and space,…
Unreal nature – AI images blur boundaries
None of these beautiful images of nature is real. We created them all using an artificial intelligence ‘art engine’ called Stable Diffusion. In a matter of seconds, the art engine turns any text…
Art work generated by artificial intelligence
This is a frame from a dynamic artwork by Istanbul-based artist Ferdi Alici, who has collaborated with NASA and CERN to create a huge AI-driven multisensory experience which will form part of lluminate…
Compressed air: sonic shock waves collide
When a plane flies faster than the speed of sound, the pressure waves in front don’t have time to flow around the aircraft and the air becomes compressed, eventually producing a shock wave,…
Eye of the spider…or not
A German scientist has discovered the world’s first eyeless huntsman spider.
New green lacewing discovered in Malaysia
A Malaysian amateur photographer, Guek Hock Ping, captured a beautiful green lacewing in early 2011. Before freeing it, he took some pictures that were uploaded to Flickr. When Shaun Winterton, an entomologist who…
Beewolf larvae protected by antibacterial cocktail
Beewolves are digger wasps that love to hunt bees, but that comes at a price: their prey may be infected with pathogens, a threat for the beewolf larvae. Because the young insects…
