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Visitors viewing reconstructed memory images at The Lost Sense exhibition
Visitors stand before reconstructed memories at The Lost Sense, an exhibition in Berlin (2025) exploring the bond between smell and memory. The images were rebuilt from the recollections of people who lost their sense of smell during the COVID-19 pandemic. Credit: Synthetic Memories, Domestic Data Streamers
Community True to a Person
Pau Aleikum Garcia of Domestic Data Streamers on Synthetic Memories, images that show not what happened, but how someone remembers it
Many of us carry memories that no camera ever recorded: a grandmother’s kitchen, a street that no longer exists, a face from a childhood that left no photographs behind. Synthetic Memories, a collective project by the Barcelona studio Domestic Data Streamers, sits with people as they describe these moments and works with them, image by image, until a picture appears that they recognize. The images are deliberately soft and dreamlike, never...
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An illustration of Earth about four billion years ago and environments where life's chemistry could have begun
Early Earth and the possible origins of life’s chemistry. Credit: Celia Blanco
Science The Loop and the Silence
Celia Blanco on life, civilizations, and a quiet galaxy
Celia Blanco's research reaches across two distant scales in the story of life. She asks how the first molecules organized themselves into living systems that...
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A summer storm gathers over Biosphere 2 near Oracle, Arizona
A summer storm over Biosphere 2, Arizona. Photo: Aaron Bugaj, University of Arizona
Frontier Rehearsing the Future Under Glass
John Adams and Laura Condon on testing tomorrow’s Earth
In September 1991, eight people walked through an airlock in the Arizona desert and sealed themselves inside a glass building for two years. Biosphere 2 was...
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Mediterranean mantises Nicosia, Cyprus © Hasan Baglar

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Digital Sublime Flora by Yeonjeong Jang
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The Afterimage of a Flower
Yeonjeong Jang on life and image
Yeonjeong Jang's Digital Sublime Flora presents forms that look, at first glance, like botanical studies...
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Alice on Earth and Bob on the Moon illustrating independent quantum operations
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Where’s the Catch?
Pedro Barrios Hita on quantum theory
Anyone familiar with complex numbers knows they can be described using two real numbers. The...
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Composite image of the Galactic Center showing infrared and radio emission
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The First Sugar Between the Stars
Izaskun Jiménez-Serra on cosmic sugar
For much of modern astrochemistry, the formation of molecules has been understood as a gradual process...
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